Citas de Frank Moore Colby

• La persecución era al menos un signo de interés personal. La tolerancia se compone de nueve partes de apatía a una de amor fraternal.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Love, Tolerance, Apathy

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• Echad vuestras preocupaciones sobre Dios; esa ancla resiste.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Anchors, Anxiety, Care

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• 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

  Integrity, Men, Ethics

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “Tailor blood and other notes and comments”

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• 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

  Life, Clever, Intelligent

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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• Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Divertido, Comunicación, Humor

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• 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

  Inspirational, Humor, Men

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• 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

  Anger, Feelings, Particular

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

  Frank Moore Colby

  Fun, Mind, Progress

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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

  Frank Moore Colby

  Friendship, True Friend, Enemy

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

  Frank Moore Colby

  Anger, Inspiration, People

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• 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.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Men, Civilization, Drawing

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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

  Frank Moore Colby

  Mind, Arriving, Way

  Frank Moore Colby (1921). “The Margin of Hesitation”

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

  Frank Moore Colby

  Acquisition, Politics, Politician

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “Tailor blood and other notes and comments”

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

  Frank Moore Colby

  Waiting, Temptation, March

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• 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

  Men, Cities, Office

  Frank Moore Colby (1904). “Imaginary Obligations”

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• 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

  Art, Nature, New York

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• 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

  Wise, Humble, Criminals

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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

  Frank Moore Colby

  Country, Sin, Said

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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

  Frank Moore Colby

  Libro, Lectura, Hombres

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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

  Frank Moore Colby

  Reputation, Fame

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

  Frank Moore Colby

  Guilt, Shame, Harm

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby essays ...”

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• Al igual que los hombres heridos pueden cojear por la vida, nuestras mentes de guerra pueden no recuperar el equilibrio de sus pensamientos durante décadas.

  Frank Moore Colby

  War, Men, Mind

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The Colby Essays: Tailor blood and other notes and comments”

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• 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

  Lonely, Sarcasm, Rights

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• Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Tolerance, Apathy, Brotherly

  Frank Moore Colby (1926). “The pursuit of humor and other essays”

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• 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

  Sound, Moral, Rendering

  Frank Moore Colby (1921). “The Margin of Hesitation”

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