Top 35 Franklin P. Adams Quotes (2025 Update)

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

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

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3. “Christmas is over and Business is Business.”

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4. “Chaos breeds life, while order breeds success.”

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5. “You do not know what you can miss before you try.”

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6. “Money isn’t everything, but lack of money isn’t anything.”

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7. “While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don’t constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.”

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

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

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11. “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.”

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12. “To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.”

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13. “Drinking is bad taste but tastes good.”

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14. “Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.”

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15. “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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16. “And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time.”

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17. “Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.”

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

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19. “Too much truth is uncouth.”

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20. “Nobody can write such ironic things unless he has a deep sense of injustice-injustice to those members of the race who are victims of the stupid, the pretentious and the hypocritical.”

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21. “I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.”

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22. “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.”

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23. “One man’s pointlessness is another’s barbed satire.”

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

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25. “Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.”

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26. “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.”

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27. “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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28. “The best bet you get is an even break.”

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29. “In the order named, these are the hardest to control: Wine, Women, and Song.”

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

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

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32. “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.”

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33. “An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.”

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34. “Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn’t get anyone else to listen to.”

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

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36. “Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes.”

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37. “We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.”

— Franklin P. Adams

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