Frank Moore Colby Quotes - Page 2

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

  Frank Moore Colby

  Expression, People, Judging

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

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• 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.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Mean, Crowds, Littles

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

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

  Frank Moore Colby

  Would Be, Committees, Meetings

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

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

  Frank Moore Colby

  Running, Noses, Chance

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

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

  Frank Moore Colby

  Play, Plot, World

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

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

  Frank Moore Colby

  Memories, Men, Littles

  "Constrained Attitudes".

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• 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?

  Frank Moore Colby

  Travel, Failure, Heart

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

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