Robert Frost
“A good book has no ending”
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.”
"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in."
“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.”
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them. The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
"Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense"
"The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise"
“A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.”
"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it"
"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."
"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn."
"A man will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body -- the wishbone."
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
“There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will.”
"Good fences make good neighbors."
“Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.”
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
"I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference."