Finley Peter Dunne Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

18 Famous Quotes by Finley Peter Dunne
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“Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.”
Vegetarianism Quotes
“Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.”
Vices Quotes
“A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.”
Fanatics Quotes
“A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.”
Fanaticism Quotes
“Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it.”
Vices Quotes
“Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.”
Inspirational Quotes
“Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.”
Advice / experience / wisdom Quotes
“The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.”
History Quotes
“High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.”
Finance Quotes
“It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.”
Humanity Quotes
“An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.”
Law Quotes
“One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.”
Lying Quotes
“The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.”
Men and women Quotes
“The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.”
Past Quotes
“A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.”
Psychological subjects Quotes
“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.”
Society Quotes
“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.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better--it is just turning around as usual.”
World Quotes