Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
(1 - 10 of 15)Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off more
It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.
A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of more
A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.
The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.
Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it.
Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it.
Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes more
Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward. - "Mr. Dooley's Opinions", 1900.
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man more
A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man that thinks men can be turned into angels by an election is a reformer and remains at large.
