Franklin P. Adams

Quotes by Franklin P. Adams

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Newspaper columnist · American · 1881–1960

American newspaper columnist (1881–1960)

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“Too much truth Is uncouth.”

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

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”

“While the work or play is on ... don't constantly feel you ought to be doing the other.”

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

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

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“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.”
— Franklin P. Adams
politics

“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.”
— Franklin P. Adams
characters fiction novel

“Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.”
— Franklin P. Adams
memory

“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”
— Franklin P. Adams
parenting

“Then here's to the City of Boston The town of the cries and the groans Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns.”
— Franklin P. Adams
boston

“While the work or play is on ... don't constantly feel you ought to be doing the other.”
— Franklin P. Adams
concentration

“There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What the country really needs is a good five-cent nickle.”
— Franklin P. Adams
money

“Too much truth Is uncouth.”
— Franklin P. Adams
truth

“Then here's to the City of Boston The town of the cries and the groans Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns.”
— Franklin P. Adams
boston