Franklin Pierce Adams
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Franklin Pierce Adams (1881-11-15 - 1960-03-23), was an American columnist (under the pen name F.P.A.), writer, and wit, part of the famous Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s.
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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.
- I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.
- The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
- 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.
- To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
- 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.
- Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
- Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
- Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
- Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
- Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
- Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
- The best you get is an even break.
- 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.
- The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
- There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
- Too much truth is uncouth.
- Christmas is over and Business is Business.
- 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.
- I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.
