Franklin Pierce Adams Quotes

You do not know what you can miss before you try. - Franklin Pierce Adams

Yet though my lamp burns low and dim, / Though I must slave for livelihood - / Think you that I would change with him? / You bet I would! - Franklin Pierce Adams

Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net. - Franklin Pierce Adams

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. - Franklin Pierce Adams

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. - Franklin Pierce Adams

Too much truth is uncouth. - Franklin Pierce Adams

Since I am used to speaking in public, I know that it is useless. - Franklin Pierce Adams

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. - Franklin Pierce Adams

Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to. - Franklin Pierce Adams

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. - Franklin Pierce Adams

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