Franklin P. Adams quotes
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“Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.”
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“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. AdamsSource : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1960
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“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.”
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“Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.”
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“In the order named, these are the hardest to control: Wine, Women, and Song.”
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“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.”
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“To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.”
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“There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.”
-- Franklin P. AdamsSource : Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”
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“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.”
-- Franklin P. AdamsSource : Nods and Becks (1944) SeeW. C. Fields 21
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“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.”
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“There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.”
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“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.”
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“There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.”
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“Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.”
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“I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.”
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“An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.”
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“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. AdamsSource : Franklin P. Adams (''F.P.A.'') (1944). “Nods and Becks”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.”
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“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.”
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“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. AdamsSource : Franklin P. Adams (''F.P.A.'') (1944). “Nods and Becks”
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“Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.”
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“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.”
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“There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.”
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“Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.”
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“If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.”
-- Franklin P. AdamsSource : Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”
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“I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.”
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“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.”
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“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”
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“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.”
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“Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes”
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“You do not know what you can miss before you try.”
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“The best bet you get is an even break.”
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“And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time”
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“Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!”
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“Christmas is over and Business is Business.”
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“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!”
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“Too much truth is uncouth.”
-- Franklin P. AdamsSource : Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”
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“Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.”
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“Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.”
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“One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.”
-- Franklin P. Adams
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