Robert Frost Men Quotations

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.

One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic. Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein?

Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.

Not to sink under being man and wife, But get some color and music out of life?

Everyone asks for freedom for himself, The man free love, the businessman free trade, The writer and talker free speech and free press.

More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.

There is much in nature against us. But we forget: Take nature altogether since time began, Including human nature, in peace and war, And it must be a little more in favor of man....

A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living....

There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.

Man that is of woman born is apt to be as vain has his mother.

A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.

The style is the man. Rather say the style is the way the man takes himself; and to be at all charming or even bearable, the way is almost rigidly prescribed. If it is with outer seriousness, it must be with inner humor. If it is with outer humor, it must be with inner seriousness. No other way will do.

Men work together, whether they work together or apart.

Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.

The difference between a man and his valet: they both smoke the same cigars, but only one pays for them.

Keats mourned that the rainbow, which as a boy had been for him a magic thing, had lost its glory because the physicists had found it resulted merely from the refraction of the sunlight by the raindrops. Yet knowledge of its causation could not spoil the rainbow for me. I am sure that it is not given to man to be omniscient. There will always be something left to know, something to excite the imagination of the poet and those attuned to the great world in which they live (p. 64)

I am assured at any rate Man's practically inexterminate. Someday I must go into that. There's always been an Ararat Where someone someone else begat To start the world all over at.

I fail to see what fun, what satisfaction / A God can find in laughing at how badly / Men fumble at the possibilities...