Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
You can lead a man up to the university but you can't make him think.
What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
Vice goes a long way tow'rd makin' life bearable. A little vice now an' thin is relished by th' best...
Show MoreTh' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, c...
Show MoreTh' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf.Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachu...
Show MoreOne of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones t...
Show MoreMany a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a res...
Show MoreI see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day but no change at all ivry fifty years.
An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.
There are no friends at cards or world politics.
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
Th' prisidincy is th' highest office in th' gift iv th people. Th' vice-prisidincy is th' next highe...
Show MoreWhin a man gets to be my age he ducks political meetin's an' reads th' papers an' weighs th' ivide...
Show MoreThe past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not the Supreme Court follows the election r...
Show MoreThe time is comin' whin not more thin hath iv us'll be rale an' th' rest'll be rubber (plastic!)
A man's idee in a card game is war- crool devastatin' and pitiless. A lady's idee iv it is a combyn...
Show MoreOpportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the d...
Show MoreIt is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off ...
Show MoreThe world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.
A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to suppor...
Show MoreStories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
