62 Quotes by Franklin P. Adams

Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.

Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes

The best bet you get is an even break.

Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.

And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time

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.

When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises.

Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!

If, my dear, you seek to slumber; Count of stars an endless number; If you will continue wakeful; Count the drops that make a lakeful; Then if vigilance yet above you Hover, Count the times I love you; And if slumber sill repel you Count the times I do not tell you.