"Clever people seem not to feel the natural……" — Frank Moore Colby
"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."
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32 Quotes by Frank Moore Colby
Frank Moore Colby has 32 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall…
- Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.
- There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.
- Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.
- Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.
- In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.
- By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much…
- As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for…
- Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
- We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.
- I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at…
- You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.