Robert Frost Quotes

• Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Down, Ever

• College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in College

  Tags in Judgement

• Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Boss, Lonely

• 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.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Story

• A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Never

• A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Life

• A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Mother

  Tags in Man

• A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better, Juries

• A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Society

• A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry

• I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Sports

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

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Society

• A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Inspirational, Wisdom

• 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

  Topics in Wedding

• Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Emotion

  Tags in Poetry, Words, Writing

• A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poetry

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

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Legal

• Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Home, Take, Place

• You don’t have to deserve your mother’s love. You have to deserve your father’s.

  Robert Frost

  Topics in Father

  Tags in Dad

• 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

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Greatest, Take

Robert Frost (142)

Birth:	26th March, 1874
Death:	29th January, 1963
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Poet

About

Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. He is highly regarded for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech.

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