Humorous Quotes attributed to Robert Frost
1875-1963, American Poet

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

Create and stir other people to create.

Everything worth saying has its own particular way, its own inevitable way, of being said.

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

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.

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

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

I had to teach in the academy to make both ends meet, and then they did not meet.

I teach only when I have something I want to tell them.

I told that boy from Amherst this morning not to get the conquer-the-world-next-year-or-quit idea into his head.

I write only when I can write--when I must write.

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.

Most folks are poets. If they were not, some of us would have no one to read what we write. Perhaps a few of us specialize just a little more, that is all.

Nobody today knows how to read Homer and Virgil perfectly, because the people who spoke Homer's Greek and Virgil's Latin are as dead as the sound of their language.

Occasionally a man comes along, who says, you can't tell me there is any poetry in the process of scratching a pig's back ! But I don't know.

Replying to the statement - "They (facts) can't be poetical unless a poet handles them." Frost says, "Anything you do to the facts falsifies them, but anything the facts do to you ... transforms them into poetry.

Some people think, that the chief aim of education is to find out what a man is fitted for. Quizzing shows that in its crudest form. Of course, that is not education's chief aim. You never quiz in good society

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working when you get up in the morning, and doesn't stop until you get to the office.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

We have had so much of it (Nature Poetry) during the last century that there is almost a revulsion against it at the present time.

When a man's young, he's an emotionalist. When he's old an intellectualist. Only about fifteen middle years are well-balanced. He should do his big works then.

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