Quotes from Frank Moore Colby

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?

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

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