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Frank Moore Colby
American
Educator
About the author
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
Frank Moore Colby,
American
Educator
#Will
#Men
#Humor
#Murder
#Treason
A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.
Frank Moore Colby,
American
Educator
#People
#Thought
#Man
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
Frank Moore Colby,
American
Educator
#Committee
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
Frank Moore Colby,
American
Educator
#Art
#Nature
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
Frank Moore Colby,
American
Educator
#Fun
#Mind
#Progress
#Mankind
Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
Frank Moore Colby,
American
Educator
#Talk
#Chance
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.
Frank Moore Colby,
American
Educator
#Politics
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
Frank Moore Colby,
American
Educator
#Love
#Interest
#Persecution
#Tolerance
#Apathy
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Frank Moore Colby,
American
Educator
#Idea
We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.
Frank Moore Colby,
American
Educator
#Mind
#Company
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
Frank Moore Colby,
American
Educator
#People
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.
Frank Moore Colby,
American
Educator
#Will
#Man
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,
American
Educator
#Feeling
I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.
Frank Moore Colby,
American
Educator
#Men
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?
Frank Moore Colby,
American
Educator
#Day
#Heart
#Man
#Question
#Sun
#Shadow
#Adventure
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
Frank Moore Colby,
American
Educator
#Communication
#Improvement
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.
Frank Moore Colby,
American
Educator
#Life
#People
#Questions
#Pleasure
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
Frank Moore Colby,
American
Educator
#God
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,
American
Educator
#Man
#Literary
#Memory
#canal