Franklin P. Adams Quotes
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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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You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
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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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Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.
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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.
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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 hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.
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One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.
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In the order named, these are the hardest to control - wine, women and song.
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An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
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Money isn't everything, but lack of money isn't anything.
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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. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
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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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Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.
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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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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes
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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
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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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If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.
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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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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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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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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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