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Men Quotes by Finley Peter Dunne
- Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.
- Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.
- Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
- A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement…
- Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it.
- Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
- A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned…
- A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.
- The last man that makes a joke owns 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…
- What's wan man's news is another man's throubles.
- A man's idee in a card game is war
- The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.
- A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord would do if He knew the facts of the case.
- You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
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