You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
A man can be right and president, but he can't be both at the same time. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
No, sir, th' dimmycratic party ain't on speakin' terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neckties go into a… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
“What I wud do if I was Buller, an' I thank Hivin I'm not, wud be move me ar-rmy in half-an-hour over th' high… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
