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...
character writing fiction
The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
stupid writing race
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.
writing imagination might
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all.
inspirational knowledge writing
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
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.
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.