"An appeal is when you ask one court……" — Finley Peter Dunne
"An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court."
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51 Quotes by Finley Peter Dunne
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- It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
- Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.
- One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones…
- Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk…
- Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of…
- Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
- Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
- Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
- The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
- I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
- If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in -…
- A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is…