Franklin P. Adams > Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“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

“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.”
― Franklin P. Adams

“Health is the thing that makes you feel like that now is the best time of the year.”
― Franklin P. Adams

“Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.”
― Franklin Pierce Adams

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

“Money isn't everything, but lack of money isn't anything.”
― Franklin P. Adams