Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
– 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.
– Franklin P. Adams
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
– Franklin P. Adams
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
In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.
– Franklin P. Adams
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
– Franklin P. Adams
Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
– Franklin P. Adams
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
– Franklin P. Adams
The best you get is an even break.
– Franklin P. Adams
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 P. Adams
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
– Franklin P. Adams
There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
– Franklin P. Adams
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
– Franklin P. Adams
Too much truth is uncouth.
– Franklin P. Adams
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
While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.
– Franklin P. Adams
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
– Franklin P. Adams
When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.