Frank Moore Colby Quotes

• 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

  Love, Tolerance, Apathy

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Anchors, Anxiety, Care

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• 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

  Integrity, Men, Ethics

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “Tailor blood and other notes and comments”

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• 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

  Life, Clever, Intelligent

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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• Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Funny, Communication, Humor

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

  Frank Moore Colby

  Inspirational, Humor, Men

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Anger, Feelings, Particular

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• That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Fun, Mind, Progress

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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• You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Friendship, True Friend, Enemy

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• Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Anger, Inspiration, People

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to admire the masters the rear is drawing reluctantly away from the totem pole.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Men, Civilization, Drawing

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Mind, Arriving, Way

  Frank Moore Colby (1921). “The Margin of Hesitation”

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• There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Book, Reading, Men

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Country, Sin, Said

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Running, Noses, Chance

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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• We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Would Be, Committees, Meetings

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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• As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Mean, Crowds, Littles

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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• In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Acquisition, Politics, Politician

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “Tailor blood and other notes and comments”

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• Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Expression, People, Judging

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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• Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Sound, Moral, Rendering

  Frank Moore Colby (1921). “The Margin of Hesitation”

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• Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Tolerance, Apathy, Brotherly

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Play, Plot, World

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby Essays: Tailor blood and other notes and comments”

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• 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

  Memories, Men, Littles

  "Constrained Attitudes".

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• 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

  Travel, Failure, Heart

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• 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

  Men, Cities, Office

  Frank Moore Colby (1904). “Imaginary Obligations”

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