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Franklin P. Adams Actor

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Nov 15, 1881
  • Died: Mar 23, 1960

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. A prolific writer of light verse, he was a member of the Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s and 1930s.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

Christmas is over and Business is Business.

Too much truth is uncouth.

The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more women, their rights and nothing less.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.