Robert Frost

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

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

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

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

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

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

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

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

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

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 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 alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

I always entertain great hopes.

To be social is to be forgiving.

It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

The best way out is always through.

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

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

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

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.

The artist in me cries out for design.

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

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

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

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

The brain is a wonderful organ it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

Education is hanging around until you've caught on.

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

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

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

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