85 Quotes By Robert Frost


A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.
Robert Frost on society

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost on society

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Robert Frost on society

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost on sports

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.
Robert Frost on teacher

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 wedding

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost on wisdom

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 wisdom

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
Robert Frost on women

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost on work

The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost on work

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
Robert Frost on work

The world is full of willing people some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost on work

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost on work

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed, alcoholism it's egotism.
Robert Frost on work

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Robert Frost on fathers day

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost on ability

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost on art

They would not find me changed from him they knew - only more sure of all I thought was true.
Robert Frost on change

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Robert Frost on education