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. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
