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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 ri...
By Frank Moore Colby
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
By Frank Moore Colby
The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.
By Frank Moore Colby
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.
By Frank Moore Colby
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.
By Frank Moore Colby
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
By Frank Moore Colby
By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
By Frank Moore Colby
Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
By Frank Moore Colby
We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.
By Frank Moore Colby
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
By Frank Moore Colby
One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
By Frank Moore Colby
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
By Frank Moore Colby
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring
By Frank Moore Colby
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind
By Frank Moore Colby
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love.
By Frank Moore Colby
Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
By Frank Moore Colby
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at
By Frank Moore Colby
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
By 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.
By Frank Moore Colby
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
By Frank Moore Colby