Franklin Pierce Adams Quotes

Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime It don't prohibit worth a dime It's filled our land with vice and crime, Nevertheless, we're for it.

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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.

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

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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.

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To err is human to forgive, infrequent.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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You never know what you can do without until you try. In Quotable Business, ed. Louis E. Boone, 1992.

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These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double, Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. This brief poem, immortalized the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance.

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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.

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

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The rich man has his motorcar, His country and his town estate, He smokes a fifty-cent cigar And jeers at Fate. He frivols through the livelong day, He knows not Poverty, her pinch. His lot seems light, his heart seems gay He has a cinch. Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, Though I must slave for livelihood Think you that I would change with him You bet I would

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

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

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