Quotes by Frank Moore Colby

Frank Moore Colby

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.

Crowds

Littles

Mean

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

Men

Mind

War

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.

Civilization

Drawing

Men

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

Lonely

Rights

Sarcasm

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Anchors

Anxiety

Care

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.

Clever

Intelligent

Life

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.

Moral

Rendering

Sound

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Communication

Funny

Humor

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?

Failure

Heart

Travel

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

Fame

Reputation

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Acquisition

Anchors

Anger

Anxiety

Apathy

Arriving

Art

Book

Brotherly

Care

Chance

Cities

Civilization

Clever

Committees

Communication

Country

Criminals

Crowds

Drawing

Enemy

Ethics

Expression

Failure

Fame

Feelings

Friendship

Fun

Funny

Guilt

Harm

Heart

Humble

Humor

Inspiration

Inspirational

Integrity

Intelligent

Judging

Life

Littles

Lonely

Love

March

Mean

Meetings

Memories

Men

Mind

Moral

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Quotes by Frank Moore Colby

Frank Moore Colby

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.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

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 rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

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.

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.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

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?

Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him.

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