Frank Moore Colby Quotes & Sayings

18 most famous Frank Moore Colby quotes and sayings (educator). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.”

“Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.”

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

“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?”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.”

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

“Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.”

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