20 Quotations by Finley Peter Dunne
- 1. A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

- 2. A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.

- 3. A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a c ...

- 4. Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the fac ...

- 5. An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

- 6. Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

- 7. Don't jump on a man unless he is down.

- 8. I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and never his prescription?

- 9. It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.

- 10. Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

- 11. Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

- 12. One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need money the most, are the very ones ...

- 13. Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the d ...

- 14. The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.

- 15. The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

- 16. The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserve ...

- 17. The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -- it is just turning around as usual.

- 18. There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on t ...

- 19. Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

- 20. Vice is a creature of such hideous mien...that the more you see it, the better you like it.

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