Robert Frost
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
The Internet is a giant international network of intelligent, informed computer enthusiasts, by which I mean, ''people without lives.'' We don't care. We have each other...
Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.
I love fools? experiments. I am always making them.
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.
I don't like to share my personal life...it wouldn't be personal if I shared it.
I came, I saw, I conquered.
I'm not normally a religious man, but if you're up there, save me, Superman!
You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.
It is always more difficult to fight against faith than against knowledge.
It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.
Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need to know of hell.
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized…
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
I don't always know what I'm talking about but I know I'm right.
The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.
We must learn to live together as brothers, or perish together as fools.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
Willing is not enough; we must do. Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.
Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you, and be happy.
Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded.
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving,…
Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem and to express it his dedication.
Absence is to love as wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small and kindles the great.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.
A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
Heroism at command, senseless brutality, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I…
Ah, yes, divorce...from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet.
Reading makes a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.
And what?s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it?s…
I do not like work even when someone else does it.
No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell…
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time…
To find yourself, think for yourself.
If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
I do not want the peace that passeth understanding, I want the understanding that brings peace.
It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.
Last night I discovered a new form of oral contraceptive. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said no.
Punctuality is the thief of time.
Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine.
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
The covers of this book are too far apart.
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many…
No woman has an abortion for fun.
You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point…
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty...this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.
God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
Many things--such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly--are done worst when we try hardest to do them.
Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
This is like deja vu all over again.