Quotes from Franklin P. Adams

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What the country really needs is a good five-cent nickle.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

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. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

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.

Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.

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.

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

If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.

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

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

Too much truth Is uncouth.

These are the saddest of possible words: "Tinker to Evers to Chance." Trio of bear cubs, and fleeter than birds, Tinker and Evers and Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double– Words that are heavy with nothing but trouble: "Tinker to Evers to Chance."

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

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.

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

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

Too much truth is uncouth.

Of making many books there is no end—So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.Thou wert my guide, philosopher and friendWhen only one is shining in the sky.

Christmas is over and Business is Business.