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There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.
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Christmas is over and Business is Business.
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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.
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Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead centre of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
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Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
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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.
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Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble,
Making a Giant hit into a double,
Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble: "Tinker to Evers to Chance."
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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.
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If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.
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Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.
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If frequently I fret and fume, And absolutely will not smile, I err in company with Hume, Old Socrates and T. Carlyle.
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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.
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I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.
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If, my dear, you seek to slumber;
Count of stars an endless number;
If you will continue wakeful;
Count the drops that make a lakeful;
Then if vigilance yet above you
Hover, Count the times I love you;
And if slumber sill repel you
Count the times I do not tell you.
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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
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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.
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Of a certain author it was said, 'A first edition of his work is a rarity but a second is rarer still.'
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These are the saddest of possible words, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Trio of Bear Cubs fleeter than birds, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble, Making a Giant hit into a double, Words that are weighty with nothing but trouble, Tinker-to-Evers-to-Chance. This brief poem, immortalized the Chicago Cubs' double-play combination: Shortstop Joe Tinker, second baseman Johnny Evers, and first baseman Frank Chance.
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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.
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And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time
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Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.
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Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.
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There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country really needs is a good five-cent nickel
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Of making many books there is no end —
So Sancho Panza said, and so say I.
Thou wert my guide, philosopher and friend When only one is shining in the sky.
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Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Franklin Pierce Adams
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Born:
November 15, 1881
Died:
March 23, 1960
(aged 78)
Bio:
Franklin Pierce Adams was 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.
Known for:
Tobogganning on Parnassus (1911)
Something Else Again (1920)
In cupid's court (1902)
The melancholy lute (1936)
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