Frank Moore Colby Quotes


"A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Thought, People, Man)

"We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Committee)

"The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Art, Nature)

"That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Progress, Fun, Mankind, Mind)

"Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Chance, Talk)

"Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Politics)

"Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Love, Apathy, Interest, Persecution, Tolerance)

"My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Idea)

"We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Company, Mind)

"Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: People)

"If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Man, Will)

"I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Feeling)

"I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Men)

"Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?"
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Heart, Adventure, Day, Man, Question, Shadow, Sun)

"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Communication, Improvement)

"Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: Life, People, Pleasure, Questions)

"Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: God)

"One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal."
- Frank Moore Colby
(Related: canal, Literary, Man, Memory)