Robert Frost Quotes on Work

8 quotes

  1. I'm going out to clean the pasture spring; I'll only stop to rake the leaves away (And wait to watch the water clear, I may): I sha'n't be gone long. - You come too.

  2. The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood, Sweet-scented stuff when the breeze drew across it.

  3. There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground.

  4. My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still. And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now.

  5. By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.

  6. The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

  7. The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

  8. The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

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