Franklin P. Adams
15 quotes
Biography
Franklin Pierce Adams was an American columnist known as Franklin P. Adams and by his initials F.P.A.
"There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important."
"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."
"Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year."
"Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year."
"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."
"Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute."
"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."
"Too much truth is uncouth."
"The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less."
"The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary."
"Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory."
"Then here's to the City of Boston The town of the cries and the groans Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns."
"While the work or play is on ... don't constantly feel you ought to be doing the other."
"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."