Robert Frost

“You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.”

“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”

“Poetry is what gets lost in translation.”

“If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.”

“Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.”

“Humor is the most engaging cowardice.”

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”

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

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

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”

“Education is hanging around until you've caught on.”

“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.”

“I go to school the youth to learn the future.”

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

“I always entertain great hopes.”

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

“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.”

“The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.”

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

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

“The strongest and most effective force in guaranteeing the long-term maintenance of power is not violence in all the forms deployed by the dominant to control the dominated, but consent in all the forms in which the dominated acquiesce in their own domination.”

“I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.”

“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”