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.
– Frank Moore Colby
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
– 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?
– 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.
– 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.
– Frank Moore Colby
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
– Frank Moore Colby
My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
– Frank Moore Colby
One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.
– 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.
– Frank Moore Colby
Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
– Frank Moore Colby
That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.
– Frank Moore Colby
We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.
– Frank Moore Colby
We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.
– Frank Moore Colby
Were it not for the presence of the unwashed and the half-educated, the formless, queer and incomplete, the unreasonable and absurd, the infinite shapes of the delightful human tadpole, the horizon would not wear so wide a grin.
– Frank Moore Colby
Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?