22 Quotations by Frank Moore Colby
- 1. Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and ...
- 2. By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation. Nobody can describe foolishness in life ...
- 3. Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questi ...
- 4. Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
- 5. Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he ...
- 6. I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at th ...
- 7. I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in ...
- 8. If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will ...
- 9. Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
- 10. Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a ...
- 11. Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities a ...
- 12. My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
- 13. One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alim ...
- 14. Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy ...
- 15. Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are no ...
- 16. Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
- 17. Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
- 18. That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progr ...
- 19. The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is ...
- 20. We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to pe ...
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