Franklin P. Adams Quotes

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.

Drinking is bad taste but tastes good.

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

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

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.

And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time

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.

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

The best bet you get is an even break.

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.

In the order named, these are the hardest to control – wine, women and song.

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!