Quotes from Frank Moore Colby

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.

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

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

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

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

One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

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