Franklin P. Jones
Reporter, Public Relations Executive and Humorist
Born: 1908
Quotes
- Love doesn’t make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
- Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
- I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
- Perhaps nothing has changed in the course of history as much as historians.
- You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.
- A bargain is something you can’t use at a price you can’t resist.
- It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water.
- Scratch a dog and you’ll find a permanent job.
- You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something.
- A bargain is something you have to find use for, once you’ve bought it.
- It’s the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we’re paying somebody not to.
- Seeing ourselves as others would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.
- You’re an old-timer if you can remember when setting the world on fire was a figure of speech.
- A fanatic is one who sticks to his guns whether they’re loaded or not.
- Love doesn’t make the word go ’round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Sex is a two-way treat.
- All women should know how to take care of children. Most of them will have a husband someday.
- Mincing your words makes it easier if you have to eat them later.
- Silence gives consent, or a horrible feeling that nobody’s listening.
- An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.
- Most people like hard work. Particularly when they are paying for it.
- The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
- An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory.
- Ninety-eight percent of American homes have TV sets, which means the people in the other 2% have to generate their own sex and violence.
- The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one.
- An extravagance is anything you buy that is of no earthly use to your wife.
- Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success – yours or his.
Whaddaya Say?