85 Quotes By Robert Frost


It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
Robert Frost on funny

I go to school the youth to learn the future.
Robert Frost on future

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert Frost on great

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert Frost on great

I always entertain great hopes.
Robert Frost on great

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost on great

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
Robert Frost on great

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost on happiness

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.
Robert Frost on history

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
Robert Frost on home

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
Robert Frost on humor

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost on inspirational

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.
Robert Frost on legal

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost on life

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.
Robert Frost on life

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.
Robert Frost on life

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
Robert Frost on life

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Robert Frost on life

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
Robert Frost on life

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.
Robert Frost on life