Quotations of selected author

Robert Lee Frost

1874-1963. American poet, he received Pulitzer Prize four times.


1. "The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. "

categories: Sorrow and Nostalgia -:- Work and Laziness


2. "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."

categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Work and Laziness


3. "The best way out is always through."

categories: Various


4. "Poetry is what is lost in translation. It is also what is lost in interpretation."

categories: Art and Culture


5. "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

source: "Preface to Collected Poems"

categories: Art and Culture -:- Pain and Tears


6. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."

categories: Life and Death


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

categories: Happiness


8. "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."

categories: Oration and Silence



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

categories: Work and Laziness


10. "A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes."

categories: Time and Passing -:- Woman and Man


11. "A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."

categories: Law and Crime


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

categories: Politics and Diplomacy -:- Woman and Man