Franklin P. Adams Quotes

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

  Franklin P. Adams

  Birthday, Memories, Ironic

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

  Franklin P. Adams

  Motivational, Fitness, Workout

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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.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Inspirational, Knowledge, Writing

  Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1960

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• 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.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Inspirational, Country, Believe

  Nods and Becks (1944) p. 74

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• You do not know what you can miss before you try.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Missing You, Missing, Trying

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• Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Freedom, Men, People

  Nods and Becks (1944) SeeW. C. Fields 21

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• Money isn't everything, but lack of money isn't anything.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Money Isn't Everything

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

  Franklin P. Adams

  Patience, Baby, Funny Inspirational

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• To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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

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• Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Cynical, Psychology, Worst

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• 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.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Change, Broken Heart, Liars

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

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• Too much truth is uncouth.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Truth, Reality, Too Much

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

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• Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Voice, Minorities, Minority Report

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• Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Order, Chaos

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• There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Winning, Common, Loser

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• One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Men, Satire, One Man

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• If, my dear, you seek to slumber;
  Count of stars an endless number;
  If you will continue wakeful;
  Count the drops that make a lakeful;
  Then if vigilance yet above you
  Hover, Count the times I love you;
  And if slumber sill repel you
  Count the times I do not tell you.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Stars, Love You, Numbers

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• 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.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Country, Cost, Cigar

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

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• Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!

  Franklin P. Adams

  Birthday, Years, Age

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• Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Men, Thinking, Years

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

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• I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Weather, Influence, Easily Influenced

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

  Franklin P. Adams

  Birthday, Men, Two

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

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• The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Writing, Character, Fiction

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

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• Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Fear, Two, Listening

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• The best bet you get is an even break.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Gambling, Casinos, Break

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