Best Quotes by Finley Peter Dunne (Top 10)

  1. Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
  2. The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
  3. Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
  4. Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
  5. Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
  6. The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better — it is just turning around as usual.
  7. Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
  8. A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
  9. One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
  10. An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.

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