Frank Moore Colby Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

Zitat des Tages von Frank Moore Colby:

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

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

Frank Moore Colby

The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.

Frank Moore Colby

Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.

Frank Moore Colby

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

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

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

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Frank Moore Colby

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

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Frank Moore Colby

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

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

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

Frank Moore Colby

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

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.

Frank Moore Colby

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