Franklin P. Adams Quotes - Page 2

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• Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.

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  Running, Cheer, Might

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

  Franklin P. Adams

  Volunteer, Rhyme, Glad

  Franklin Pierce Adams, “Maud Muller Mutatur”

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

  Franklin P. Adams

  Song, Wine, Order

  "TELEVISION; The Illustrious Lunchers At the Algonquin Recalled" by Herbert Mitgang, www.nytimes.com. September 27, 1987.

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

  Franklin P. Adams

  Public Speaking, Futility, Accustomed

  Franklin P. Adams (''F.P.A.'') (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• The best bet you get is an even break.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Gambling, Casinos, Break

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

  Franklin P. Adams

  Birthday, Golf, Age

  Nods and Becks (1944)

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

  Franklin P. Adams

  Sex, Wife, Extravagance

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• When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them

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  Witty, Mean, Intelligent

  Nods and Becks (1944) p. 3

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• Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Country, Circles, Forever

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

  Franklin P. Adams

  Life, Success, Son

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

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  Axes, Taxation, Earth

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• Drinking is bad taste but tastes good.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Drinking, Taste, Bad Taste

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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.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Wise, Fun, Butterfly

  Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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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.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Brother, Stupid, Giants

  Franklin P. Adams (''F.P.A.'') (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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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.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Writing, Imagination, Might

  Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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

  Franklin P. Adams

  Hate, Pests, I Hate

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the livelong day, He knows not Poverty, her pinch. His lot seems light, his heart seems gay; He has a cinch. Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, Though I must slave for livelihood- Think you that I would change with him? You bet I would!

  Franklin P. Adams

  Change, Country, Heart

  FRANKLIN P ADAMS (1911). “TOBOGGANING ON PARNASSUS”

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• Christmas is over and Business is Business.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Christmas, Business

  "For the Other 365 Days". Trans-communicator, Volume 44, p. 177, 1927.

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• 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.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Home, Night, Class

  Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double, Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. This brief poem, immortalized the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination: Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance.

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  Play, Bird, Bears

  Franklin Pierce Adams, “Baseball's Sad Lexicon”

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• 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 trail of graft and slime It don't prohibit worth a dime It's filled our land with vice and crime, Nevertheless, we're for it.

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  Land, Vices, Dimes

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• 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.

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  Fun, Play, Feels

  Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”

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• Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Stupid, Writing, Race

  "Eighty-Five from the Archive: Dorothy Parker" by Erin Overbey, www.newyorker.com. May 5, 2010.

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• 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

  Presidential, Relation, Aggression

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