Some say the world will end in fire, / Some say in ice.
Frost’s nine-line poem weighs desire (fire) against hate (ice) as the thing most likely to destroy the world, and concludes that ice “would suffice” as well. It was first printed in Harper’s Magazine in December 1920.
Good fences make good neighbors.
Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you in.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles to go before I sleep.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
The rank is but the guinea’s stamp, / The Man’s the gowd for a’ that.