Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
"The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here."
- Finley Peter Dunne
(Related: Past)
"The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual."
- Finley Peter Dunne
(Related: World)
"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."
- Finley Peter Dunne
(Related: Being, News, World)
"There are no friends at cards or world politics."
- Finley Peter Dunne
(Related: Politics, Cards, Friends, World)
"Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it."
- Finley Peter Dunne
(Related: Vice)
"A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable."
- Finley Peter Dunne
(Related: Lie, Purpose)
"Trust everybody, but cut the cards."
- Finley Peter Dunne
(Related: Trust, Cards)
"Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals."
- Finley Peter Dunne
(Related: Food)
"It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it."
- Finley Peter Dunne
(Related: Difference, Study)
"Don't jump on a man unless he is down."
- Finley Peter Dunne
(Related: Man)
"Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable."
- Finley Peter Dunne
(Related: Comfort)
"Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts."
- Finley Peter Dunne
(Related: Alcohol, Facts, Man, Opinion)
"A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case."
- Finley Peter Dunne
(Related: Facts, Man)
"One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it."
- Finley Peter Dunne
(Related: Life, Money, Poor)
"An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court."
- Finley Peter Dunne
(Related: Contempt, Court)