Frank Moore Colby Quotes & Quotations

Frank Moore Colby Quotes

» Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

» I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

» Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

» We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

» Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

» We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

» That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

» 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.

» 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.

» One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.

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