Frank Moore Colby Quotes

True satire is not the sneering substance that we know, but satire that includes the satirist.

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

committees

In spite of the large population of this planet, men and women remain today the most inaccessible things on it.

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.

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

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

satire

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.

asking questions