Finley Peter Dunne Quotes

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Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.

Finley Peter Dunne
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that now and then he can have a good opinion of himself undisturbed by the facts.

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A man's idee in a card game is war—crool, devastatin', an' pitiless. A lady's idee iv it is a combynation iv larceny, embezzlement, an' burglary.

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"Ye ra-aly do think dhrink is a nicissry evil?" said Mr. Hennessy. "Well," said Mr. Dooley, "if it's an evil to a man, it's not nicissry, an' if it's nicissry it's an evil."

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Life'd not be worth livin' if we didn't keep our inimies.

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In England a man is presoomed to be innocent till he's proved guilty an' they take it f 'r granted he's guilty. In this counthry a man is presoomed to be guilty ontil he's proved guilty an' afther that he's presoomed to be innocent.

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I don't think we injye other people's sufferin', Hinnissy. It isn't acshally injyement. But we feel betther f'r it.

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Th' raypublican party broke ye, but now that ye're down we'll not turn a cold shoulder to ye. Come in an' we'll keep ye—broke.

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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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A man's idea in a card game is war — cruel, devastating and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.

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Miracles are laughed at be a nation that r-reads thirty millyon newspapers a day an' supports Wall sthreet.

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Hogan's r-right whin he says: "Justice is blind." Blind she is, an' deef an' dumb an' has a wooden leg.

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Th' prisidincy is th' highest office in th' gift iv th' people. Th' vice-prisidincy is th' next highest an' th' lowest. It isn't a crime exactly. Ye can't be sint to jail f'r it, but it's a kind iv a disgrace. It's like writin' anonymous letters.

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Th' Turkey bur-rd's th' rale cause iv Thanksgivin'. He's th' naytional air. Abolish th' Turkey an' ye desthroy th' tie that binds us as wan people.

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A law, Hennessy, that might look like a wall to you or me would look like a triumphal arch to the experienced eye of a lawyer.

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If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.

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Though I have patches on me pantaloons, I've ne'er a wan on me intestines.

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I wondher why ye can always read a doctor's bill an' ye niver can read his purscription?

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Mickrobes is a vigitable, an' ivry man is like a conservatory full iv millyons iv these potted plants.

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I know about marredge th' way an asthronomer knows about th' stars.

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No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.

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To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.

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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.

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Whin a man's sick, he's sick an' nawthin' will cure him or annything will.

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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.

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When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win... an' th' best man will win.

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I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.

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It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.

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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.

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"Ye know a lot about [raising children]," said Mr. Hennessy. "I do," said Mr. Dooley. "Not bein' an author, I'm a gr-reat critic."

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