Frank Moore Colby Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

12 Famous Quotes by Frank Moore Colby
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“Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.”
Persecution Quotes
“Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.”
Communication Quotes
“By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.”
Occupation Quotes
“Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.”
Persecution Quotes
“Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.”
Sin 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?”
Treason Quotes
“Nobody can describe a fool to the life, without much patient self-inspection.”
Flattery Quotes
“One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal.”
Literature Quotes
“Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.”
Negativity 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.”
Progress Quotes
“Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.”
Relationships Quotes
“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? - The Colby Essays.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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