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...
winning common loser
There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.
christmas
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
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!
birthday golf age
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
country cost cigar
There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
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.
cynical psychology worst
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
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.
patience baby children
You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
volunteer rhyme glad
And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time
home night class
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.
gambling casinos break
The best bet you get is an even break.
missing trying knows
You do not know what you can miss before you try.
axes earth taxes
Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes