Franklin P. Adams
Franklin P. Adams
Franklin Pierce Adamswas an American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit, best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular panelist on radio's Information Please. A prolific writer of light verse, he was a member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s...
patience baby children
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
stupid writing race
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.
cynical psychology worst
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
presidential relation aggression
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.
country cost cigar
There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
birthday golf age
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
change broken-heart liars
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.
birthday years today
Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!
stars love-you numbers
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.
running cheer might
Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.
success men doors
If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.
weather influence easily-influenced
I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.
play bird giants
These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double, Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. This brief poem, immortalized the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination: Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance.
two listening stuff
Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.