Frank Moore Colby Quotes

"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 in Tolerance quotes.

"Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection."
-Frank Moore Colby

"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
-Frank Moore Colby in Boredom quotes.

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

"In public we say the race is to the strongest; in private we know that a lopsided man runs the fastest along the little side-hills of success."
-Frank Moore Colby

"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

"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

"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