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...
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Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
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Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.
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Drinking is bad taste but tastes good.
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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.
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And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time
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The best bet you get is an even break.
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You do not know what you can miss before you try.
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Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes
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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.