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Franklin P. Adams
American
Journalist
About the author
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.
Franklin P. Adams,
American
Journalist
#Nothing
#Peace
#History
#Nations
#Aggression
Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
Franklin P. Adams,
American
Journalist
#Nothing
#Old
#Memory
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin P. Adams,
American
Journalist
#Golf
#Old
#Age
#Middle age
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 P. Adams,
American
Journalist
#Information
There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
Franklin P. Adams,
American
Journalist
#Life
#Day
#Man
#Age
Too much truth is uncouth.
Franklin P. Adams,
American
Journalist
#Truth
The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
Franklin P. Adams,
American
Journalist
#Nothing
#Men
#Women
#Rights
Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
Franklin P. Adams,
American
Journalist
#Time
#Now
#Health
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
Franklin P. Adams,
American
Journalist
#Imagination
There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
Franklin P. Adams,
American
Journalist
#Trouble
#Country
Christmas is over and Business is Business.
Franklin P. Adams,
American
Journalist
#Business
#Christmas
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
Franklin P. Adams,
American
Journalist
#People
#Men
#Women
#Vote
#Elections
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 P. Adams,
American
Journalist
#Time
#People
#Trouble
#Country
#Experience
#Fool
#Conviction
#Politicians