Frank Moore Colby Famous 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"
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
"Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again."
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love.
"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."
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
Frank Moore Colby Quotations
Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain the former vexes you for a time the latter will bring you lasting remorse.
Chilo
"The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things have their beginnings but the seed never explains the flower."
Edith Hamilton
"There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few."
Janet Erskine Stuart
... information can be treated like any other quantity and be subjected to the manipulation of a machine.
Stan Aogartem
"Of no mortal say, 'That man is happy,' till vexed by no grievous ill he pass Life's goal."
Sophocles
Accept good advice gracefully--as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.
Gene Brown
"It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered."
Gelett Burgess
"I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope."
William Walsh
The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.
Jose Ortega y Gasset