Frank Moore Colby Quotes & Quotations

Frank Moore Colby Quotes

» 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.

» 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?

» Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

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

» The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

» Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?

» A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

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

» 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.

» 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.

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