Quote

A man's idee in a card game is war

Finley Peter Dunne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Finley Peter Dunne
Age: 68 †
Born: 1867
Born: July 10
Died: 1936
Died: April 24
Author
Journalist
Screenwriter
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Games
War
Men
Card
Cards
Game

More quotes by Finley Peter Dunne

Image
Vice goes along way towards making life bearable. A little vice now and then is relished by the best of men.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
Many a man that could rule a hundherd millyon sthrangers with an ir'n hand is careful to take off his shoes in the front hallway whin he comes home late at night.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
When 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 Dunne
Image
Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
Th' 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 Dunne
Image
Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection from the best features of those fine arts.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
Finley Peter Dunne
Image
An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.
Finley Peter Dunne