Franklin P. Adams Quotes

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

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

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.

I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

Too much truth Is uncouth.

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

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

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

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

You do not know what you can miss before you try.

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

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.

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

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.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

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.

Money isn't everything, but lack of money isn't anything.

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

In the order named, these are the hardest to control - wine, women and song.

One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.

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.

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.

Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.

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

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

The best bet you get is an even break.

Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.

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

And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time

Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.

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

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

Drinking is bad taste but tastes good.

I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.

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.

Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes

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.

Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What the country really needs is a good five-cent nickle.

While the work or play is on ... don't constantly feel you ought to be doing the other.

Then here's to the City of Boston The town of the cries and the groans Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns.

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.