Mr. Dooley remembers: the informal memo...
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Source: Mr. Dooley's Opinions
Source: Mr. Dooley's Opinions
“A man's idee in a card game is war”
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“When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.”
Source: Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War
Source: Mr. Dooley remembers: the informal memoirs of Finley Peter Dunne
“What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.”
“Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.”
“If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.”
Source: Mr. Dooley on Ivryting and Ivrybody
“I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.”
“A man can be right and president, but he can't be both at the same time.”
Source: Mr. Dooley Says
“Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.”
“The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.”
“You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.”
Source: Mr. Dooley and the Chicago Irish: The Autobiography of a Nineteenth-century Ethnic Group
“Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.”
“It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.”
“Don't jump on a man unless he is down.”
Source: Mr. Dooley remembers: the informal memoirs of Finley Peter Dunne
“Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.”
“Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.”
“The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.”
“I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.”
“Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.”
“A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable”
“An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.”
“Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it”
Source: Mr. Dooley remembers: the informal memoirs of Finley Peter Dunne