A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back again when it begins to rain.
—Robert Frost
No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Literature, Reading, Books
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I’ll forgive Thy great big one on me.
—Robert Frost
Topics: God, Jokes, Religion, Life
The difference between a job and a career is the difference between forty and sixty hours a week.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Career, Funny quotes
If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.
—Robert Frost
Topics: America
My sorrow, when she’s here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be; she loves the bare, the withered tree; she walks the sodden pasture lane.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Autumn, Seasons
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: Men & Women, Nature, Women, Foolishness, Fools, Men
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Living, Purpose, Nature, Life, Meaning, Living Well
Skepticism, is that anything more than we used to mean when we said, “Well, what have we here?”
—Robert Frost
Topics: Doubt, Skepticism
You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Freedom
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Liberalism, Politics, Open-mindedness
A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Work, Society
Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Reason
We cannot tell some people what it is believe, partly because they are too stupid to understand, partly because we are too proudly vague to explain.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Beliefs
I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Poets, Poetry
Nothing is quite honest that is not commercial, but not everything commercial is honest.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Honesty
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Thinking, Thoughts, Thought
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Time Management, Time
Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Joy, Happiness
A man has as much right as a woman to a good cry now and again. The snow gave me shelter; the horse understood and gave me the time.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Crying
The only way around is through.
—Robert Frost
Topics: General, Success & Failure, Achievement
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Diplomacy, Age, Birthdays, Memory
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.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Eating
All thought is a feat of association; having what’s in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn’t know you knew.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Thoughts
A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Art, Poets, Poetry
Nothing Gold Can Stay
—Robert Frost
Topics: Gold
One aged man—one man—can’t fill a house.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Loneliness
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Writers
Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Fighting, Fight
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
—Robert Frost
Topics: Art, Poets, Poetry
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Robert Penn Warren American Novelist, Poet
- Theodore Roethke American Poet
- Stanley Kunitz American Poet
- W. H. Auden British-born American Poet
- Edna St. Vincent Millay American Poet
- John Ciardi American Poet
- James Russell Lowell American Poet, Critic
- William Butler Yeats Irish Poet
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich American Writer
- Celia Thaxter American Poet
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