Franklin P. Adams Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

Too much truth is uncouth.

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.

Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.

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

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.

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.

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.

Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!

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

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

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

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

The best bet you get is an even break.

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

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