Franklin P. Adams Quotes, Thoughts and images

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

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

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

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

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

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

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.

Too much truth is uncouth.

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

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

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 this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

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

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

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

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

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

An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.

Drinking is bad taste but tastes good.

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

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

The best bet you get is an even break.

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

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

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.

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

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.

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.

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