“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”
Robert Frost
“A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.”
Robert Frost
“We love the things we love for what they are.”
Robert Frost · Hyla Brook, 1916
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”
Robert Frost · The Road Not Taken, 1916
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
“Something there is that doesn't love a wall.”
Robert Frost · Mending Wall, 1914
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
Robert Frost
“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
Robert Frost · The Death of the Hired Man, 1914
“All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”
Voltaire · Zadig, 1747
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
Voltaire
“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.”
Voltaire
“It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.”
Voltaire
“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
Voltaire · Sept Discours en Vers sur l'Homme, 1738