Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
Top 56 wise famous quotes and sayings by Finley Peter Dunne
Finley Peter Dunne Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.
If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.
Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf.
Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure.
But th' shelf is th' main thing.
Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure.
But th' shelf is th' main thing.
No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.
Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.
A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th thruth iv th matther is he was ilicted because no wan knew him.
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt.
The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.
That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.
Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.
Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.
If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans.
Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.
It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.
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.
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.