Finley Peter Dunne Quotes

Best Quotes by Finley Peter Dunne (Top 10)

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
Finley Peter Dunne
The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
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Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
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Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
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Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
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The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better — it is just turning around as usual.
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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
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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.
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One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
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An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.
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A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
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The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
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It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.
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Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.
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Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
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Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
Finley Peter Dunne