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Finley Peter Dunne

The past always looks better than it was. It’s only pleasant because it isn’t here.

Past, Better, Looks

Finley Peter Dunne

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.

Look, Eat, Like

Finley Peter Dunne

Many a man that couldn’t direct ye to th’ drug store on th’ corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin’ when age has further impaired his mind.

life, passion, adventure

Finley Peter Dunne

Vice goes a long way tow’rd makin’ life bearable. A little vice now an’ thin is relished by th’ best iv men.

Finley Peter Dunne

Th’ prisidincy is th’ highest office in th’ gift iv th people. Th’ vice-prisidincy is th’ next highest an’ the 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.

Finley Peter Dunne

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.

Finley Peter Dunne

The time is comin’ whin not more thin hath iv us’ll be rale an’ th’ rest’ll be rubber (plastic!)

Finley Peter Dunne

Whin a man gets to be my age he ducks political meetin’s an’ reads th’ papers an’ weighs th’ ividence an’ th’ argymints – pro-argymints an’ con-argymints an’ makes up his mind ca’mly an’ votes th’ Dimmycratic Ticket.

Finley Peter Dunne

Opportunity knocks at every man’s door once. On some men’s door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he’s asleep and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.

Finley Peter Dunne

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

newspapers, journalism

Finley Peter Dunne

A man’s idee in a card game is war- crool devastatin’ and pitiless. A lady’s idee iv it is a combynation iv larceny embezzlement an’ burglary.

Finley Peter Dunne

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.