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...
christmas
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
money-isnt-everything
Money isn't everything, but lack of money isn't anything.
birthday men two
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
writing imagination might
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.
forgiveness forgiving humans
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
song wine order
In the order named, these are the hardest to control: Wine, Women, and Song.
birthday memories nostalgia
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
freedom men people
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
inspirational country believe
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
inspirational knowledge writing
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
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.
motivational fitness workout
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
hate pests i-hate
I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.
sex wife use
An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.