63 Quotes by Finley Peter Dunne

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it.

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

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 by conscientious scruples and the police.

If 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.

I wonder why you can always read a doctor’s bill and you can never read his prescription.

Opportunity knocks at every man’s door once. On some men’s door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he’s asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.

No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.

Meditation is a gift confined to unknown philosophers and cows. Others don’t begin to think till they begin to talk or write.

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.