Franklin P. Adams famous quotes

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Motivational #Fitness #Flower

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Inspirational #Writing #Knowledge

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Inspirational #Country #Believe

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Birthday #Memories #Responsible

In the order named, these are the hardest to control: Wine, Women, and Song.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Song #Wine #Order

Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Writing #Imagination #Might

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Forgiveness #Forgiving #Humans

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Birthday #Men #Two

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Freedom #Men #People

If, my dear, you seek to slumber; Count of stars an endless number; If you will continue wakeful; Count the drops that make a lakeful; Then if vigilance yet above you Hover, Count the times I love you; And if slumber sill repel you Count the times I do not tell you.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Stars #Love You #Numbers

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Winning #Common #Loser

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Fun #Play #Feels

There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Son #Police #Taste

Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Conscience

I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Hate #Pests #I Hate

An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Sex #Wife #Extravagance

Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Men #Thinking #Knowing

As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Brother #Stupid #Giants

We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Wise #Fun #Butterfly

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Children #Parenting #Instance

Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime It don't prohibit worth a dime It's filled our land with vice and crime, Nevertheless, we're for it.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Land #Vices #Dimes

Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Country #Circles #Forever

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Writing #Character #Fiction

Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Stupid #Writing #Race

When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Change #Broken Heart #Liars

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Cynical #Psychology #Worst

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Presidential #Relation #Aggression

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Country #Cost #Cigar

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Birthday #Golf #Age

If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Success #Men #Doors

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Weather #Influence #Easily Influenced

These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double, Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. This brief poem, immortalized the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination: Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Play #Bird #Giants

When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Witty #Mean #Men

Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Home #Night #Class

Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Axes #Earth #Taxes

You do not know what you can miss before you try.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Missing #Trying

The best bet you get is an even break.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Break

And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Volunteer #Rhyme #Glad

Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Birthday #Years #Today

Christmas is over and Business is Business.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Christmas

The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the livelong day, He knows not Poverty, her pinch. His lot seems light, his heart seems gay; He has a cinch. Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, Though I must slave for livelihood- Think you that I would change with him? You bet I would!
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Country #Heart #Fate

Too much truth is uncouth.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Reality #Too Much #Truth Is

Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Public Speaking #Futility

Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Two #Listening #Stuff

One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.
-- Franklin P. Adams

#Men #Satire #Pointlessness