Author: Frank Moore Colby

Quotes

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

- 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.

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

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

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

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

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

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

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

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

- Frank Moore Colby

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

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