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Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds."

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "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 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 Quotes: "Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive."

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.



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

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




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."

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 Quotes: "Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "One learns little more about a man from the feats of his literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal."

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




Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."

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



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind."

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



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest."

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?"

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



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours."

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.




Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way."

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



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist."

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



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "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."

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.



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "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."

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.



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape."

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



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "Fill an author with a titanic fame and you do not make him titanic; you often merely burst him."

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



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades."

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



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies."

You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies.



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art."

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



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass."

When temptations march monotonously in regiments, one waits for to pass.



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least."

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least.



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "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."

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.



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression."

Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot."

The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "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 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.



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening."

Women singly do a good deal of harm. Women in bulk are chastening.



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament."

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at."

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 Quotes: "Cast your cares on God that anchor holds."

Cast your cares on God that anchor holds.



Frank Moore Colby Quotes: "That is the consolation of a little mind you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind."

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