Franklin P. Jones

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody’s there to appreciate it.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.

I drank to drown my pain, but the damned pain learned how to swim…

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn’t equal the right thing for one day.

You are the fever that never broke, the name stuck in my throat. You are every letter of every word in every poem I ever wrote.

What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Seeing things that are bothering you written down takes away their power. It gives you a perspective. Helps you contain them.

This is not new territory. Stop lights like lullabies write my eulogy.

When I am old, weather-worn, and grey, I want to fill my lungs with your perfume and hear your laughter echo through our home as we dance alone in our living room, drunk off wine, still madly in love.

I haven’t put a pencil to a piece of paper, working out a problem, in years; I do it in my head.

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way!