Middle Life Quotes by Frank Moore Colby

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

— Frank Moore Colby

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

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

— Frank Moore Colby

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

— Frank Moore Colby

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

— Frank Moore Colby

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

— Frank Moore Colby

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

— Frank Moore Colby

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

— Frank Moore Colby

Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned…

— Frank Moore Colby

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider…

— Frank Moore Colby

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

— Frank Moore Colby

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

— Frank Moore Colby

A new thinker is only one who does not know what the old thinkers have thought

— Frank Moore Colby

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

— Frank Moore Colby

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