Franklin P. Adams
Quotes by Franklin P. Adams
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The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
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The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.
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As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering Yes to Am I my brother's copper? He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked stop.
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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.
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The best you get is an even break.
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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
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When the man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or four years ago, he is a broadminded 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.
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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 any worse than the last one.
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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.
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When the political columnists say Every thinking man they mean themselves, and when the candidates appeal to Every intelligent voter they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.
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One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.
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Ninety-two per cent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
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Too much Truth Is uncouth.
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Too much truth is uncouth.
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody, rather than for somebody.
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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.
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