Cut quarrels out of literature, and you will have very little history or drama or fiction or epic poetry left.


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Mission accomplished? The mission in Iraq, as laid out by President Bush and Vice President Cheney, ...
ROBERT BYRD
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I b...
ROBERT CARO
If you don't have a leg to stand on, you can't put your foot down.
ROBERT ALTMAN
Pirate ships were built for stealth and invisibility. They filed no manifests with any agency or gov...
ROBERT KURSON
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That d...
ROBERT FULGHUM
I was first in line for the iPhone, but I'm not a fanboy of any company - I'm in favor of an...
ROBERT SCOBLE
Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies.
ROBERT TROUT
Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of ...
ROBERT COLLIER
I'm the guy who spends 15 minutes staring out of the window wondering what to have for lunch.
ROBERT WEBB
Space ails us moderns: we are sick with space.
ROBERT FROST
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
ROBERT FROST
I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the soun...
ROBERT FROST
The artist in me cries out for design.
ROBERT FROST
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
ROBERT FROST
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first ta...
ROBERT FROST
Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
ROBERT FROST
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
ROBERT FROST
To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.
ROBERT FROST
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized societ...
ROBERT FROST
We love things we love what they are.
ROBERT FROST
Humor is the most engaging cowardice.
ROBERT FROST
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
ROBERT FROST
I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
ROBERT FROST
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
ROBERT FROST
College is a refuge from hasty judgment.
ROBERT FROST
If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had...
ROBERT FROST
Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.
ROBERT FROST
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
ROBERT FROST
I always entertain great hopes.
ROBERT FROST
A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbon...
ROBERT FROST
I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover's quarrel with the world.
ROBERT FROST
You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.
ROBERT FROST
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not...
ROBERT FROST
The middle of the road is where the white line is - and that's the worst place to drive.
ROBERT FROST
Education is hanging around until you've caught on.
ROBERT FROST
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
ROBERT FROST
Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.
ROBERT FROST
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST
I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
ROBERT FROST
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
ROBERT FROST
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
ROBERT FROST
The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
ROBERT FROST