Quote #128
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
More from Robert Frost
- A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
- A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
- A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
- All poetry is a reproduction of the tones of actual speech.
- A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday... but never remembers her age.
- An idea is a feat of association.
- A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.
- As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.