Robert Frost

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

You've got to love what's lovable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.

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

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

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

An idea is a feat of association and the height of it is a good metaphor.

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions to disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing argument.

I always entertain great hopes.

There's nothing I'm afraid of like scared people.

Home is the place when you have to go there they have to take you in.

I had a lover's quarrel with the world.

There may be little or much beyond the grave But the strong are saying nothing until they see.

Belief is better than anything else and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

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.

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

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the difference.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.