The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary. Franklin P. Adams More Quotes by Franklin P. Adams More Quotes From Franklin P. Adams Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them. Franklin P. Adams cynicalpsychologyworst I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar. Franklin P. Adams easily-influencedinfluenceweather Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it. Franklin P. Adams futilityaccustomedpublic-speaking 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 Franklin P. Adams intelligentwittymean 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! Franklin P. Adams changeheartcountry 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 broken-heartchangeliars The best bet you get is an even break. Franklin P. Adams casinosgamblingbreak There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police. Franklin P. Adams successlifeson I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best. Franklin P. Adams pestsi-hatehate 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. Franklin P. Adams playfeelsfun An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife. Franklin P. Adams extravagancewifesex 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 cigarcostcountry 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. Franklin P. Adams racestupidwriting 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. Franklin P. Adams aggressionpresidentialrelation Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes Franklin P. Adams axestaxationearth Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. Franklin P. Adams agegolfbirthday 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. Franklin P. Adams dimeslandvices 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 menyearsthinking Too much truth is uncouth. Franklin P. Adams too-muchtruthreality 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. Franklin P. Adams homeclassnight
