Franklin P. Adams Quotations

Drinking is bad taste but tastes good.

As we see censorship it is a stupid giant traffic policeman answering "Yes" to "Am I my brother's copper?" He guards a one-way street and his semaphore has four signs, all marked "stop.

We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard; consider her ways and get wise.

One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.

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.

The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.

There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.

I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.

While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.

An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.