Quotes by Finley Dunne

• The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
• The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
• The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.
• 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.
• There are no friends at cards or world politics.
• Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.
• A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
• Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
• It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
• Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
• Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
• Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
• A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
• One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
• An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.