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Finley Peter Dunne
American
Journalist
About the author
The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
Finley Peter Dunne,
American
Journalist
#Husbands
The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
Finley Peter Dunne,
American
Journalist
#Past
The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.
Finley Peter Dunne,
American
Journalist
#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,
American
Journalist
#World
#Being
#News
There are no friends at cards or world politics.
Finley Peter Dunne,
American
Journalist
#World
#Friends
#Politics
#Cards
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
Finley Peter Dunne,
American
Journalist
#Vice
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Finley Peter Dunne,
American
Journalist
#Purpose
#Lie
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
Finley Peter Dunne,
American
Journalist
#Trust
#Cards
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
Finley Peter Dunne,
American
Journalist
#Food
It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
Finley Peter Dunne,
American
Journalist
#Study
#Difference
Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
Finley Peter Dunne,
American
Journalist
#Man
Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
Finley Peter Dunne,
American
Journalist
#Comfort
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
Finley Peter Dunne,
American
Journalist
#Man
#Opinion
#Facts
#Alcohol
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,
American
Journalist
#Man
#Facts
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,
American
Journalist
#Life
#Poor
#Money
An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.
Finley Peter Dunne,
American
Journalist
#Court
#Contempt