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List of Frank Moore Colby Quotes
We have put together a list of some of the best Quotes that Written by Frank Moore Colby
Frank Moore Colby
Total Quotes 32
The World Is A Play That Would Not Be Worth Seeing If We Knew The Plot.
Play
Plot
World
There Ought To Be Some Sign In A Book About Man, That The Writer Knows Thoroughly One Man At Least.
Book
Reading
Men
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.
Men
Cities
Office
Sin In This Country Has Been Always Said To Be Rather Calculating Than Impulsive.
Country
Sin
Said
One Learns Little More About A Man From The Feats Of His Literary Memory Than From The Feats Of His Alimentary Canal.
Memories
Men
Littles
Talk Ought Always To Run Obliquely, Not Nose To Nose With No Chance Of Mental Escape.
Running
Noses
Chance
We Always Carry Out By Committee Anything In Which Any One Of Us Alone Would Be Too Reasonable To Persist.
Would Be
Committees
Meetings
As Crowds Increase We Build Our Forts Of Inattention, And The More We Talk The Easier It Is To Mean Little And Listen Not At All.
Mean
Crowds
Littles
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?
Travel
Failure
Heart
Literary People Are Forever Judging The Quality Of The Mind By The Turn Of Expression.
Expression
People
Judging
Distaste Sounds More Emphatic When Expressed As Moral Disapproval. With Most Of Us The Moral Counterblast Is Nothing More Than The Angry Rendering Of A Yawn.
Sound
Moral
Rendering
Persecution Was At Least A Sign Of Personal Interest.
Tolerance
Apathy
Brotherly
By Rights, Satire Is A Lonely And Introspective Occupation, For Nobody Can Describe A Fool To The Life Without Much Patient Self-inspection.
Lonely
Sarcasm
Rights
In Middle Life Politics Are Not A Mental Acquisition; They Are A Temperament.
Acquisition
Politics
Politician
Women Singly Do A Good Deal Of Harm. Women In Bulk Are Chastening.
Guilt
Shame
Harm
Fill An Author With A Titanic Fame And You Do Not Make Him Titanic; You Often Merely Burst Him.
Reputation
Fame
When Temptations March Monotonously In Regiments, One Waits For To Pass.
Waiting
Temptation
March
As Wounded Men May Limp Through Life, So Our War Minds May Not Regain The Balance Of Their Thoughts For Decades.
War
Men
Mind
The New York Playgoer Is A Child Of Nature, And He Has An Honest And Wholesome Regard Of Whatever Is Atrocious In Art.
Art
Nature
New York
You Cannot Find, Make Or Understand True Friendship Without Having Enemies.
Friendship
True Friend
Enemy
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.
Wise
Humble
Criminals
We Do Not Mind Our Not Arriving Anywhere Nearly So Much As Our Not Having Any Company On The Way.
Mind
Arriving
Way
Men Will Confess To Treason, Murder, Arson, False Teeth, Or A Wig. How Many Of Them Will Own Up To A Lack Of Humor?
Inspirational
Humor
Men
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.
Men
Civilization
Drawing
Born: 1865
Died: 1925
Occupation: Writer
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