A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

Quote by Robert Frost

Topics: Society Quotes

To be social is to be forgiving

To be social is to be forgiving

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I...

Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I...

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in...

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in...

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to...

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to...

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman...

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman...

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life...

The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life...

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized...

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized...

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed,...

The worst disease which can afflict executives in their work is not, as popularly supposed,...

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing...

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing...

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.

Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice.