Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Frost

You know how cunningly mankind is planned: We have one loving and one hating hand. The loving's made to hold each other like, While with the hating other hand we strike.

Robert Frost

I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.

Robert Frost

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

Ah, when to the heart of man Was it ever less than a treason To go with the drift of things, To yield with a grace to reason, And bow and accept the end Of a love or a season?

Robert Frost

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

Robert Frost

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

Robert Frost

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Robert Frost

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

Robert Frost

The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.

Robert Frost

Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That's voting.

Robert Frost

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

Robert Frost

We love the things we love for what they are.

Robert Frost

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Robert Frost

Something we were withholding made us weak, until we found it was ourselves.

Robert Frost

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

Robert Frost

How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?

Robert Frost

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Robert Frost

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.

Robert Frost

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Robert Frost

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.

Rita Mae Brown

About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.

Rita Hayworth

When you're in love you're living, you matter.

Rita Rudner

I knew so little about money I used to sign my check, "Love, Rita."

Rita Rudner

Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

Rita Rudner

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love. I'd stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

Rita Rudner

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Rita Mae Brown

I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.

Rita Mae Brown

A narcissism shared by two.

Rita Mae Brown

I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.

Rita Mae Brown

To love without role, without power plays, is revolution.

Rita Mae Brown

You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.

Rita Mae Brown

Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other, so best not to spurn the former.