Peter Dunne Quotes

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

Many a man that couldn't direct ye to th' drug store on th' corner when he was thirty will get a respectful hearin' when age has further impaired his mind.

Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.

The last man that makes a joke owns it.

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 ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.

A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption.

Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it.

Even an Englishman was niver improved by bein' blown up.

It must be a good thing to be good or ivrybody wudden't be pretendin' he was.

Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.

It [Thanksgiving] was founded by the Puritans to give thanks for bein' preserved from the Indians, an' we keep it to give thanks we are preserved from the Puritans.

Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.

To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.

There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.

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

Vice goes a long way tow'rd makin' life bearable. A little vice now an' thin is relished by th' best iv men.

A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief but they run away fr'm doubt.

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

The time is comin' whin not more thin hath iv us'll be rale an' th' rest'll be rubber (plastic!)

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

A man's idee in a card game is war- crool devastatin' and pitiless. A lady's idee iv it is a combynation iv larceny embezzlement an' burglary.

An appeal is when ye ask wan court to show its contempt for another court.

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

You can lead a man up to the university but you can't make him think.

I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day but no change at all ivry fifty years.

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.

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