You cannot find, make or understand true friendship without having enemies. Frank Moore Colby More Quotes by Frank Moore Colby More Quotes From Frank Moore Colby There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least. Frank Moore Colby reading men book Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Frank Moore Colby brotherly tolerance apathy 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. Frank Moore Colby rendering moral sound Literary people are forever judging the quality of the mind by the turn of expression. Frank Moore Colby judging expression people 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. Frank Moore Colby drawing men civilization 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 crowds littles mean We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist. Frank Moore Colby committees meetings would-be Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape. Frank Moore Colby chance noses running The world is a play that would not be worth seeing if we knew the plot. Frank Moore Colby plot play world 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 office cities men 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 littles men memories 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 Minds do not act together in public they simply stick together and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again. Frank Moore Colby Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts apathy to one of brotherly love. Frank Moore Colby A 'new thinker', when studied closely, is merely a man who does not know what other people have thought. Frank Moore Colby new thought man people
