Franklin P. Adams Quotes

Franklin P. Adams Biography
Type: Journalist
Nationality: American
Born: November 15, 1881
Died: 1960

Christmas is over and Business is Business.
Franklin P. Adams

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

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
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 the way.
Franklin P. Adams

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

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

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.
Franklin P. Adams

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
Franklin P. Adams

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
Franklin P. 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

Too much truth is uncouth.
Franklin P. Adams

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.
Franklin P. Adams