62 Quotes by Franklin P. Adams

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

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.

One man’s pointlessness is another’s barbed satire.

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.

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.

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.

Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn’t get anyone else to listen to.

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