62 Quotes by Franklin P. Adams

Prohibition is an awful flop. We like it. It can't stop what it's meant to stop. We like it. It's left a trail of graft and slime It don't prohibit worth a dime It's filled our land with vice and crime, Nevertheless, we're for it.

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

There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.

I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.

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.

An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.

Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.

Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.

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