35 Quotes by 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.

A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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