Franklin Pierce Adams Quotes

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

  Franklin Pierce Adams

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in People, Elections

• 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.

  Franklin Pierce Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Discovered, Middle

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

  Franklin Pierce Adams

  Topics in Age, Funny

  Tags in Young

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

  Franklin Pierce Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Miss, Try

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

  Franklin Pierce Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Information, Great, Something

• Christmas is over and Business is Business.

  Franklin Pierce Adams

  Topics in Business

• Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

  Franklin Pierce Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Imagination, Write

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

  Franklin Pierce Adams

  Topics in Memory

  Tags in Responsible, Good

• 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.

  Franklin Pierce Adams

  Topics in Country, Experience

  Tags in Trouble, Believe

• There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.

  Franklin Pierce Adams

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Trouble, Good

• There must be a day or two in a man’s life when he is the precise age for something important.

  Franklin Pierce Adams

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Something

• Too much truth is uncouth.

  Franklin Pierce Adams

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Uncouth

• 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 Pierce Adams

  Topics in History

  Tags in Position, Relations

• Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

  Franklin Pierce Adams

  Topics in Health

  Tags in Time, Feel

Franklin Pierce Adams (14)

Birth:	15th November, 1881
Death:	23rd March, 1960
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Columnist, Poet, Radio Personality

About

Franklin Pierce Adams was born in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He was an American columnist, best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please. Signing on with the Chicago Journal in 1903, he wrote a sports column and then a humor column, "A Little about Everything". During his time on the Evening Mail, he wrote what remains his best known work, the poem Baseball's Sad Lexicon, a tribute to the Chicago Cubs double play combination of "Tinker to Evers to Chance". He wrote primarily under his initials, F.P.A.

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