Franklin P Adams Quotes

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

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

Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

APTRONYM. American columnist and wit Franklin P. Adams (1881–1960), well known by his initials F. P. A., coined this word for a name that sounds like its owner’s occupation; for instance, William Rumhole, who was a London tavern owner. In Noah Jonathan Jacobs’s Naming-Day in Eden we are told of a Russian ballerina named Olga Tumbelova. Gene Weingarten, a writer for the Washington Post, has coined inaptronym for a name that is ironic as opposed to appropriate, e.g., the late Cardinal Sin—Jaime Lachica Sin, the Roman Catholic Cardinal of Manila.

PLENTIETH. Franklin P. Adams’s adjective of indefinite older age, as in: “He is about to celebrate his plentieth birthday.

Money isn't everything, but lack of money isn't anything.

Harpo, a shy and silent fellow, was taken up by the Algonquin crowd, at that time probably the most famous and brilliant conversational group in America. On a clear day, a good many of the following would be assembled there for lunch and mayhem: George Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Robert Benchley, Alexander Woollcott, Franklin P. Adams, Dorothy Parker, Newman Levy, Robert Sherwood, Howard Dietz and many others.