Quotes by Frost, Robert

"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."

Frost, Robert on acceptance
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"Ah, when to the heart of man was it ever less than a treason to go with the drift of things to yield with a grace to reason and bow and accept at the end of a love or a season."

Frost, Robert on acceptance
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"The best way out of a difficulty is through it."

Frost, Robert on difficulties
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"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

Frost, Robert on diplomacy
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"Pressed into service means pressed out of shape."

Frost, Robert on draft   

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"Education is hanging around until you've caught on."

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

Frost, Robert on education
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"And were an epitaph to be my story I'd have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world."

Frost, Robert on epitaphs
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"And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope."

Frost, Robert on failure
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"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."

Frost, Robert on family   

"There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man --fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them."

Frost, Robert on fear
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"Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on."

Frost, Robert on fights and fighting
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"A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."

Frost, Robert on fools and foolishness
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"Friends make pretence of following to the grave but before one is in it, their minds are turned and making the best of their way back to life and living people and things they understand."

Frost, Robert on friends and friendship   

"The only way around is through."

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

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

Frost, Robert on god
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"You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country."

Frost, Robert on grammar   

"There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see."

Frost, Robert on grave   

"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."

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

Frost, Robert on art   

"Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close."

Frost, Robert on heaven
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"I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way."

Frost, Robert on hell
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"Hell is a half-filled auditorium."

Frost, Robert on hell   

"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."

Frost, Robert on home
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"An idea is a feat of association, and the height of it is a good metaphor."

Frost, Robert on ideas   

"There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail."

Frost, Robert on income   

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

Frost, Robert on individuality   

"The land was ours before we were the land s. She was our land more than a hundred years before we were her people."

Frost, Robert on land   

"A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman."

Frost, Robert on law and lawyers   

"The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

Frost, Robert on law and lawyers
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"A liberal man is too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel."

Frost, Robert on liberals   

"The middle of the road is where the white line is -- and that's the worst place to drive."

Frost, Robert on lies and lying
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"The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep."

Frost, Robert on death
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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."

Frost, Robert on life
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"I had a lovers quarrel with the world."

Frost, Robert on argument   

"One aged man -- one man -- can't fill a house."

Frost, Robert on loneliness   

"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on."

Frost, Robert on losers and losing
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"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."

Frost, Robert on love
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"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."

Frost, Robert on marriage
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