Finley Peter Dunne - Man Quotes

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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.

Finley Peter Dunne
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.

Finley Peter Dunne
Ivry sick man is a hero, if not to th' wurruld or aven to th' fam'ly, at laste to himsilf.

Finley Peter Dunne
This home iv opporchunity where ivry man is th' equal iv ivry other man befure th' law if he isn't careful.

Finley Peter Dunne
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 be an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.

Finley Peter Dunne
'Tis as hard f'r a rich man to enther th' kingdom iv Hiven as it is f'r a poor man to get out iv Purgatory.

Finley Peter Dunne
A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks th' Lord wud do if He knew th' facts iv th' case.

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.

Finley Peter Dunne
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.

Finley Peter Dunne
"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."

Finley Peter Dunne
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.

Finley Peter Dunne
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.

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

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

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

Finley Peter Dunne