Frank Moore Colby

Quotes:

"Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again."

"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."

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

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

"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."

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