Frank Moore Colby Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Art, Nature, New York

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• 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

  Wise, Humble, Criminals

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

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• Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Reputation, Fame

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• Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Guilt, Shame, Harm

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

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• As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

  Frank Moore Colby

  War, Men, Mind

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

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• By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Lonely, Sarcasm, Rights

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• When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Waiting, Temptation, March

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

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