Nods and Becks (1944)
Original: «Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody».
Fuente: Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations. Editor Ned Sherrin. Edición ilustrada y reimpresa. Editorial OUP Oxford, 2008. ISBN 9780199237166. p. 88.
Frases célebres de Franklin Pierce Adams
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Nods and Becks (1944)
Original: «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».
Fuente: Rawson, Hugh; Miner, Margaret. The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations. Editores Hugh Rawson, Margaret Miner. Edición reimpresa, revisada y anotada. Editorial Oxford University Press, USA, 2006. ISBN 9780195168235. p. 508.
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Nods and Becks (1944)
Original: «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».
Fuente: Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations. Editor Ned Sherrin. Edición ilustrada y reimpresa. Editorial OUP Oxford, 2008. ISBN 9780199237166. p. 214.
“Se acabó la Navidad y los negocios son los negocios.”
Original: «Christmas is over and Business is Business».
Fuente: Trans-communicator, volumen 44. Colaborador Transportation-Communication Employees Union. Editorial Transportation-Communication Employees Union, 1927. p. 177.
Original: «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».
Fuente: Citado en Blanchfield, William C. Economics: Reality Through Theory. Editor Jacob Oser. Editorial Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Incorporated, 1973. ISBN 9780155188020.
Franklin Pierce Adams: Frases en inglés
“Christmas is over and Business is Business.”
"For the Other 365 Days", in Trans-communicator, Volume 44 (1927), p. 177.
Reported in Jacob Morton Braude, Complete Speaker's and Toastmaster's Library: Remarks of famous people (1965), p. 53.