"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."

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Source : Franklin P. Adams (''F.P.A.'') (1944). “Nods and Becks”

Franklin P. Adams

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Knowing Quotes

“I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,”
“I can be Erykah the human being more than the celebrity.”
“Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.”

Source : Quoted in L.A. Times, 5 Oct. 1963
“The city was asleep on its right side and shaking with violent nightmares. Long puffs of snoring came out of the chimneys. Its feet were sticking out because the clouds did not cover it altogether. There was a hole in them and the white feathers were falling out. The city had untied all its bridges like so many buttons to feel at ease. Wherever there was a lamplight the city scratched itself until it went out.”
“This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.”
“In the presence of their love I sensed my lonliness, and I understood for a moment, clearly, that deep and basic human desire for companionship at depth.”

Source : Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.63, Penguin
“With the proper diet, no doctor is necessary. With the improper diet, no doctor can help”
“Do without if you need to, but don't do without mother.”

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