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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