| |  | | | | | Quotations by author » Finley Peter Dunne
American Journalist and Humorist, 1867-1936 | | Quotes: 1 - 18 of 18 | Pages: 1 | | | | | | A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case. | | Uncategorized | | | A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable. | | Uncategorized | | | 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. | | Uncategorized | | | Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. | | Alcohol | | | An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court. | | Uncategorized | | | Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. | | Uncategorized | | | | | It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it. | | Uncategorized | | | Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals. | | Uncategorized | | | Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals. | | Vegetarianism | | | One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it. | | Uncategorized | | | The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married. | | Husbands | | | The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here. | | Uncategorized | | | The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual. | | Uncategorized | | | 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. | | Uncategorized | | | There are no friends at cards or world politics. | | Friends | | | | | Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it. | | Uncategorized | | | | | Quotes: 1 - 18 of 18 | Pages: 1 | | | |
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