Franklin P. Adams Quotations

Franklin P. Adams

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.

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.

Insomniacs don't sleep because they worry about it, and they worry about it because they don't sleep.

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

The most difficult year of marriage is the one you're in.

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.

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.

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.