There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.


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ROBERT FROST
Oh I kept the first for another dayYet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if should ever come...
ROBERT FROST
Fire and Ice
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve t...
ROBERT FROST
Fireflies in the Garden
By Robert Frost 1874–1963

Here come real stars to fill th...
ROBERT FROST
God made a beauteous garden
With lovely flowers strown,
But one straight, narrow pathway<...
ROBERT FROST
I never take my own side in a quarrel.
ROBERT FROST
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definitio...
ROBERT FROST
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twent...
ROBERT FROST
How many things have to happen to you before something occurs to you?
ROBERT FROST
An idea is a feat of association.
ROBERT FROST
A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
ROBERT FROST
As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.
ROBERT FROST
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
ROBERT FROST
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
ROBERT FROST
Isn't it funny that anything the Supreme Court says is right?
ROBERT FROST
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.
ROBERT FROST
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I -- I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the di...
ROBERT FROST
These woods are lovely, dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before...
ROBERT FROST
Why abandon a belief merely because it ceases to be true? Cling to it long enough and... it will tur...
ROBERT FROST
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
ROBERT FROST
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower
But only ...
ROBERT FROST
Thinking is not to agree or disagree. That is voting.
ROBERT FROST
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stoppin...
ROBERT FROST
The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I ...
ROBERT FROST