Finley Peter Dunne Quotes
Sad Quotes by Finley Peter Dunne

The only good husbands stay bachelors:
They're too considerate to get married.
- Finley Peter Dunne

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
- Finley Peter Dunne

Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat
that they can be classified as cannibals.
- Finley Peter Dunne

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

There are no friends at cards or world politics.
- Finley Peter Dunne

It don't make much difference what you study,
so long as you don't like it.
- Finley Peter Dunne

The past always looks better than it was.
It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
- Finley Peter Dunne

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have
a good opinion of himself,
undisturbed be the facts.
- Finley Peter Dunne

A fanatic is a man that does what he thinks the Lord
would do if He knew the facts of the case.
- Finley Peter Dunne

The world is not growing worse and it is not growing better -
it is just turning around as usual.
- Finley Peter Dunne

There ain't 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 Dunne

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
- Finley Peter Dunne

An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.
- Finley Peter Dunne

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien...
that the more you see it the better you like it.
- 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.
- Finley Peter Dunne

Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
- Finley Peter Dunne

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-pity in its early stages
is as snug as a feather mattress.
Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.
- Maya Angelou

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was,
Thank you, that would suffice.
- Meister Eckhart

Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.
- George Eliot

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Those who have come here to hate should leave now;
for in their hate, they only betray themselves.
- Terry Goodkind

You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

I object to violence because
when it appears to do good,
the good is only temporary;
the evil it does is permanent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The only cure for grief is action.
- G. H. Lewes

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is a mistake to look too far ahead.
Only one link in the chain of destiny
can be handled at a time.
- Winston Churchill

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen

The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.
- George Carlin

I always pass on good advice.
It is the only thing to do with it.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde

I only wish that ordinary people
had an unlimited capacity for doing harm;
then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
- Socrates

You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Advertisements contain the only truths
to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely
only after they have exhausted all other alternatives.
- Abba Eban

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

I believe totally in a Capitalist System,
I only wish that someone would try it.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

The only true love is love at first sight;
second sight dispels it.
- Israel Zangwill

It is only the poor who pay cash,
and that not from virtue,
but because they are refused credit.
- Anatole France

Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein

Are you feeling stressed and upset?
If so, you are worrying about tomorrow.
Events that have already occurred may cause you regret,
but they only appear to cause worry.
If you just lost your job, you are not worrying about losing your job -
that already happened.
You are worrying about paying your bills and finding a new job.
Those are worries about tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

There is only one thing about which I am certain,
and that is that there is very little
about which one can be certain.
- W. Somerset Maugham

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

If you want total security, go to prison.
There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on.
The only thing lacking... is freedom.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born
at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
- Mark Twain

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition,
is not only a waste of energy
but the worst habit you could possibly have.
- Dale Carnegie

Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because
he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong
only because he has remained silent.
- Winston Churchill

Every man casts a shadow;
not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit.
This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will,
it falls opposite to the sun;
short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?
- Henry David Thoreau

Only dead fish swim with the stream.
- Anonymous

The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Love is only a dirty trick played on us
to achieve continuation of the species.
- W. Somerset Maugham

The reason I talk to myself is because
I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
- George Carlin

Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
- Albert Einstein

The attempt to combine wisdom and power
has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
- Albert Einstein