Age is when a girl rings and says 'Do you remember me?' And you reply, 'No, I don't, and hang up the receiver.'
--Franklin Pierce Adams
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
In a body (like Congress) where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
Money isn't everything, but lack of money isn't anything.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
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.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
Nothing makes you more tolerant of a neighbor's noisy party than being there.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
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.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
Then here's to the City of Boston,
The town of the cries and the groans,
Where the Cabots can't see the Kabotschniks,
And the Lowells won't speak to the Cohns.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country really needs is a good five-cent nickel.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
Too much Truth Is uncouth.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
When a man you like switches from what he said a year ago, or four 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.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead centre of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
You do not know what you can miss before you try.
--Franklin Pierce Adams
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