Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. — Frank Moore Colby Chance 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 Fool 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 Canals 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 Anger Copy Share Image
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. — Frank Moore Colby Communication 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 Book Copy Share Image
Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening. — Frank Moore Colby Deals 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 Balance 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… — Frank Moore Colby Admire 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,… — Frank Moore Colby Intellectual Copy Share Image
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. — Frank Moore Colby People Copy Share Image
A new thinker is only one who does not know what the old thinkers have thought — Frank Moore Colby Thinking Copy Share Image
As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and… — Frank Moore Colby Crowds Copy Share Image
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 About Copy Share Image
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are… — Frank Moore Colby Hope Copy Share Image
“Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer… — Frank Moore Colby Adventure Copy Share Image
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. — Frank Moore Colby Persist Copy Share Image
“Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and the half-educated, the formless, queer and incomplete, the unreasonable and absurd, the… — Frank Moore Colby Copy Share Image
Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive. — Frank Moore Colby Calculating Copy Share Image
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer… — Frank Moore Colby Adventure Copy Share Image
I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at. — Frank Moore Colby Anger Copy Share Image
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men… — Frank Moore Colby Bottom Copy Share Image
Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him. — Frank Moore Colby Books Copy Share Image
