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Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) by Linux fortune

If it were thought that anything I wrote was influenced by Robert Frost,
I would take that particular work of mine, shred it, and flush it down
the toilet, hoping not to clog the pipes.  A more sententious, holding-
forth old bore who expected every hero-worshiping adenoidal little twerp
of a student-poet to hang on to his every word I never saw.
                -- James Dickey
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
                -- Robert Frost
What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for
something to occur to you.
                -- Robert Frost

        [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
         referring to AST's.]
And miles to go before I sleep.
                -- Robert Frost
I would like to know
What I was fencing in
And what I was fencing out.
                -- Robert Frost
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction, ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
                -- Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice"
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"
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
                -- Robert Frost
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and
ask for it back the when it begins to rain.
                -- Robert Frost
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be
boss and work twelve.
                -- Robert Frost
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