35 Quotes by Frank Moore Colby

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

Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression.

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.

As crowds increase we build our forts of inattention, and the more we talk the easier it is to mean little and listen not at all.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest.

The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot.

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

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.