Finley Peter Dunne Quotes - Page 3

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

There are no friends at cards or world politics

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.

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.

Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.

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

A man's idee in a card game is war

Trust ivrybody-but cut th' cards.

The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.

The last man that makes a joke owns it.

A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.

The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.

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

What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.

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

Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.

Even an Englishman was niver improved by bein' blown up.