Quotes By Finley Peter Dunne

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

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

An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.

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

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

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

The 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.

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.

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

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

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

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

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.