If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
Finley Peter DunneThe American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.
Finley Peter DunneThere's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.
Finley Peter DunneWhat is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
Finley Peter DunneI niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
Finley Peter DunneTh' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf. Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure. But th' shelf is th' main thing.
Finley Peter DunneWhen the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
Finley Peter DunneA 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.
Finley Peter DunneIf Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.
Finley Peter DunneI wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
Finley Peter DunneThe wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.
Finley Peter DunneNo matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.
Finley Peter DunneAlcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.
Finley Peter DunneIt [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.
Finley Peter DunneA 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 into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.
Finley Peter DunneMeditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don't begin to think till they begin to talk or write.
Finley Peter DunneContinued focus on (employee) turnover is of critical importance, because of the direct relation of turnover to improvements in labor costs and guest satisfaction.
Finley Peter DunneIt is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.
Finley Peter DunneVice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.
Finley Peter DunnePolitics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it.
Finley Peter DunneVice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it
Finley Peter DunneA firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt.
Finley Peter DunneMany a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.
Finley Peter DunneViceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.
Finley Peter DunneThere aint any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.
Finley Peter DunneOne of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.
Finley Peter Dunne