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...
Franklin P. Adams quotes about
motivational fitness workout
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
public-speaking futility knows
Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.
drinking taste bad-taste
Drinking is bad taste but tastes good.
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.
volunteer rhyme glad
And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time
axes earth taxes
Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes