Quotes by Frank Moore Colby

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

“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?”

“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.”

“The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.”

“Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.”

“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.”

“Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love”

“In public we say the race is to the strongest; in private we know that a lopsided man runs the fastest along the little side-hills of success”

“Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection”

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

“You are not a human being in search of a spiritual experience. You are a spiritual being immersed in a human experience.”

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

“A new thinker, when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.”

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

“Why need every honest poet be suspected of leading a quadruple life? Sometimes the second or third meaning is less interesting than the first, and the only really difficult thing about a poem is the critics explanation of it”

“Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and the half-educated, the formless, queer and incomplete, the unreasonable and absurd, the infinite shapes of the delightful human tadpole, the horizon would not wear so wide a grin.”

“Reform often seems only the dislike of the blase for the people with animal spirits”

“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”

“My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.”

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.