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...
witty mean intelligent
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
acquired finding great information looking
I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
drinking taste bad-taste
Drinking is bad taste but tastes good.
brother stupid four
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.
wise fun butterfly
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.
men satire one-man
One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.
land dimes awful
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.
character writing fiction
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
son police taste
There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.
hate pests i-hate
I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.
fun play feels
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.
sex wife use
An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.
country circles forever
Life, lift the full goblet--away with all sorrow-- The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow-- Here's to the Fourth and our country forever.
voice minorities minority-report
Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.