Unknown's Quotes
- 1. Christmas is over and Business is Business.
- 2. Franklin P. Adams
- 3. Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
- 4. Franklin P. Adams
- 5. Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
- 6. Franklin P. Adams
- 7. Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.
- 8. Franklin P. Adams
- 9. I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
- 10. Franklin P. Adams
- 11. 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.
- 12. Franklin P. Adams
- 13. Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
- 14. Franklin P. Adams
- 15. Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
- 16. Franklin P. Adams
- 17. Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
- 18. Franklin P. Adams
- 19. The best you get is an even break.
- 20. Franklin P. Adams
- 21. 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.
- 22. Franklin P. Adams
- 23. The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less.
- 24. Franklin P. Adams
- 25. There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.
- 26. Franklin P. Adams
- 27. There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
- 28. Franklin P. Adams
- 29. Too much truth is uncouth.
- 30. Franklin P. Adams
- 31. 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.
- 32. Franklin P. Adams
- 33. 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.
- 34. Franklin P. Adams
- 35. A friend in power is a friend lost.
- 36. Henry B. Adams
- 37. A teacher affects eternity he can never tell, where his influence stops.
- 38. Henry B. Adams
- 39. Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
- 40. Henry B. Adams
- 41. Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
- 42. Henry B. Adams
- 43. Accident counts for much in companionship as in marriage.
- 44. Henry B. Adams
- 45. All experience is an arch, to build upon.
- 46. Henry B. Adams
- 47. American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
- 48. Henry B. Adams
- 49. As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore.
- 50. Henry B. Adams
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