Robert Frost1874–1963A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Attributed to Frost in Harvey Shapiro “Story of the Poem”, The New York Times (January 15, 1961), sec. SM, p. 6; and in Guy Davenport, The Geography of the Imagination (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1981), p. 208
