Finley Peter Dunne Quotes

• Even an Englishman was niver improved by bein’ blown up.

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• Glory Be, whin Business gets above sellin’ tinpinny nails in a brown paper cornucopy, ’tis hard to tell it fr’m murther.

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• Ye can lead a man up to the university but ye can’t make him think.

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• Trust everybody, but cut the cards.

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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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• A man that’d expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an’ remains at large.

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

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  Tags in Profitable, Purpose

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

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  Tags in Himself, Necessary, Good

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

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  Tags in Appeal, Contempt, Another

• 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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  Tags in Need, Things

• Don’t jump on a man unless he is down.

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  Tags in Jump, Man

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

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  Tags in Difference, Study

• The past always looks better than it was. It’s only pleasant because it isn’t here.

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  Tags in Better, Pleasant

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

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  Tags in World, Better, Turning

• 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.

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  Tags in Good, Might, World

• There are no friends at cards or world politics.

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  Topics in Politics

  Tags in World, Friends

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

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  Tags in Better, Hideous

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

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  Tags in Married, Considerate, Good

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

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  Tags in Look, Cannibals

Finley Peter Dunne (19)

Birth:	10th July, 1867
Death:	24th April, 1936
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, Writer

About

Finley Peter Dunne was an American humorist and writer from Chicago. He published Mr. Dooley in Peace and War, a collection of his nationally syndicated Mr. Dooley sketches, in 1898. The fictional Mr. Dooley expounded upon political and social issues of the day from his South Side Chicago Irish pub and he spoke with the thick verbiage and accent of an Irish immigrant from County Roscommon.

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