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. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#angry #anybody #disagreeable #feeling #generally

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

#answering #asking #bewilderment #chief #clever

Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#lose #many #merely #people #seeing

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

#brotherly #composed #interest #least #love

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

— Frank Moore Colby

#does #know #man #merely #new

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#cares #cast #god #holds #your

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#bore #every #improvement #makes #more

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

#bottom #ever #found #had #i

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. ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#choose #city #consider #efforts #intellectual

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor? ↗

— Frank Moore Colby

#false #how #humor #lack #many