Thursday, November 21, 2013

Interesting quotes of Robert FROST

There are many famous words said by Robert Frost. We may be very familiar with these words without knowing the author. Here are some of them that I prefer:

1. A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
2. Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
3. 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.
4. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
5. 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.
6. Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.
7. Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.
8. Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
9. The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
10. Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
11. It's a funny thing that when a man hasn't anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.
12. The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
13. I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.
14. Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
15. To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
16. A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
17. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
18. The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
19. To be social is to be forgiving.
20. A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.
21. College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
22. Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
23. The only certain freedom's in departure.
24. We love things we love what they are.

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2 comments:

  1. this is a nice collection of quotes... but which 3 are your favorites?

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  2. The 1st, 10th and 17th. The first one is very funny and the other two are quite profound attitude of the poet towards life.

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