Inspirational Quotes by Franklin P. Adams (American Columnist)

Too much truth is uncouth.
—Franklin P. Adams
Topics: Truth

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

What this country needs is a good five cent cigar.
—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.
—Franklin P. Adams
Topics: Writing

Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn’t get anyone else to listen to.
—Franklin P. Adams
Topics: Confidence

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 P. Adams
Topics: Aging, Age

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
—Franklin P. Adams
Topics: Health

While the work or play is on … don’t constantly feel you ought to be doing the other.
—Franklin P. Adams
Topics: Concentration, Focus

In the order named, these are the hardest to control: Wine, Women, and Song.
—Franklin P. Adams
Topics: Wine

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 P. Adams

THERE was a man in our town, and he was wondrous rich;
He gave away his millions to the colleges and sich;
And people cried: The hypocrite! He ought to understand
The ones who really need him are the children of this land.
When Andrew Croesus built a home for children who were sick,
The people said they rather thought he did it as a trick,
And writers said: He thinks about the drooping girls and boys,
But what about conditions with the men whom he employs?
There was a man in our town who said that he would share
His profits with his laborers, for that was only fair,
And people said: Oh, isn’t he the shrewd and foxy gent?
It cost him next to nothing for that free advertisement.
There was a man in our town who had the perfect plan
To do away with poverty and other ills of man,
But he feared the public jeering, and the folks who would defame him,
So he never told the plan he had, and I can hardly blame him.
—Franklin P. Adams
Topics: Wealth

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

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
—Franklin P. Adams
Topics: Voting, Elections

The rich man has his motor car,
His country and his town estate
He smokes a fifty-cent cigar
And jeers at fate.
Yet though my lamp burn low and dim,
Though I must slave for livelihood,
Think you that I would change with him?
You bet I would!
—Franklin P. Adams
Topics: Wealth

Count the day when, turning on its axis, this earth imposes no additional taxes.
—Franklin P. Adams
Topics: Taxes

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
—Franklin P. Adams
Topics: Memory

Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.
—Franklin P. Adams
Topics: Conscience

There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
—Franklin P. Adams

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