63 Quotes by Finley Peter Dunne

Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.

High finance isn’t burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.

A man never becomes an orator if he has anything to say.

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better – it is just turning around as usual.

Work is work if you’re paid to do it, and it’s a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.

What’s wan man’s news is another man’s throubles.

It don’t make much difference what you study, so long as you don’t like it.