Top 74 Quotes & Sayings by Finley Peter Dunne - Page 2

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

You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.

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

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

If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.

A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.

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

Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it.

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.

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

A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.

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

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