Franklin P. Adams

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

— Franklin P. Adams

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

— Franklin P. Adams

In the order named, these are the hardest to control: Wine, Women, and Song.

— Franklin P. Adams

When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody…

— Franklin P. Adams

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

— Franklin P. Adams

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

— Franklin P. Adams

Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a…

— Franklin P. Adams

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

— Franklin P. Adams

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly…

— Franklin P. Adams

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

— Franklin P. Adams

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

— Franklin P. Adams

Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.

— Franklin P. Adams

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

— Franklin P. Adams

Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I…

— 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…

— Franklin P. Adams

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

— Franklin P. Adams

The best bet you get is an even break.

— Franklin P. Adams

The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He…

— Franklin P. Adams

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

— Franklin P. Adams

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

— Franklin P. Adams

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

— Franklin P. Adams

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…

— 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.…

— Franklin P. Adams

As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a…

— Franklin P. Adams

When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person…

— Franklin P. Adams