Quotes from Franklin Pierce Adams

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

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.

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.

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

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

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

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

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

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