Finley Peter Dunne quote: "Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward.

Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world ...
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 world is not growing worse and it is not growing better - it is just turning around as usual.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

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

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

It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off ...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

A man that would expect to train lobsters to fly in a year is called a lunatic; but a man that think...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

No, sir, th dimmycratic party aint on speakin terms with itsilf. Whin ye see two men with white neck...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th thruth iv th matther is he was...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a c...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, c...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones t...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the fac...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Don't jump on a man unless he is down.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
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

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

One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat only has nine lives.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

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

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

High finance isn't burglary or obtaining money by false pretenses, but rather a judicious selection ...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserve...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

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

Don't jump on a man unless he's down.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its 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

Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, c...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

An appeal is when you ask one court to show it's contempt for another court.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

I'll now fall back a furlong or two in me chair, while me larned but misguided collagues r-read th' ...
FINLEY PETER DUNNE

Swearing was invented as a compromise between running away and fighting.
PETER FINLEY DUNNE

He wants to put his electorate first and I respect that decision,
PETER DUNNE

I just love putting on the uniform; it's what I have done since I was 6 or 7 years old. It's...
STEVE FINLEY

Being fully present is the best guarantee for a bright future.
GUY FINLEY

I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me i...
STEVE FINLEY

If we're interested in spiritual things, we gradually realize that what we really need is to und...
GUY FINLEY

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.
CHARLIE FINLEY

A crisis is a close encounter of the truthful kind.
GUY FINLEY

A crisis is a close encounter of the third kind.
GUY FINLEY

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
JOHN FINLEY

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.
GUY FINLEY

To be a part of a championship team, I'm excited... This is the closest I've ever been to a ...
MICHAEL FINLEY

Don't believe what the spiritual sharks and clever carnival hustlers tell you about fearless liv...
GUY FINLEY

Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not.
GUY FINLEY

All we will ever know and share about love, humility, compassion, and sacrifice - the secrets that w...
GUY FINLEY

Once something has outlived its usefulness in one area of life, its purpose for being in existence i...
GUY FINLEY

If children live with hostility, they learn to fight. If they live with fear, they learn to be appre...
RON FINLEY

Within the human being there exists both the needful and the needed. You know that the needful exist...
GUY FINLEY

From the movie, The Boy Who Could Fly Somewhere, deep inside, we can all fly.
GUY FINLEY

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
GUY FINLEY

People in my neighborhood are so disconnected from the fresh food supply that kids don't know an...
RON FINLEY

Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and l...
GUY FINLEY

You don't need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.
GUY FINLEY

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, conten...
GUY FINLEY

I looked and said, 'Papa, it's a big fish!'. I don't think he believed me because I usually say that...
CHRISTA FINLEY

The deepest parts of you know that if freedom from fear was as easy as 'creating a new reality&#...
GUY FINLEY

Pope John Paul II envisioned this as the conclusion of the exhibit. He wanted people to touch the ha...
DAN FINLEY

Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into...
GUY FINLEY

Education is the process by which the individual relates himself to the universe, give himself citiz...
JOHN FINLEY

The path to the inwardly enriched life is not hidden from the man or woman who longs to walk upon it...
GUY FINLEY

We need to see, and agree that what we seek already lives within us, and we within it. Now we know o...
GUY FINLEY

It's a long flight for both teams. This team is not going to hang its head. We're going to come back...
STEVE FINLEY

It's my fault that we got to this point. I was guilty of being overly optimistic. I wanted to believ...
MICHAEL FINLEY

Every relationship that we have in our lives - our contact with each person, place, and event - serv...
GUY FINLEY

He is extremely nice. He thanked me after every scene I was standing in for him.
ANDY FINLEY

Just to have a small part in it would be pretty special.
ANDY FINLEY

I woke up one morning and discovered I was living next door to a megalopolis and there was not a lot...
BETINA FINLEY

It's just too big. It changes the look and feel of the neighborhood.
BETINA FINLEY

One of the most moving pieces is the bronze cast of the papal hand.
DAN FINLEY

They have a real swagger about themselves,
MICHAEL FINLEY

If it happens, it happens. If it doesn't, it doesn't. I'm fine. I don't lose sleep over it. My life ...
MICHAEL FINLEY

He looks good. He looks the same to me.
MICHAEL FINLEY

A lot has changed in the last year, but the game of basketball has remained the same. I put myself i...
MICHAEL FINLEY

Ten stories in this neighborhood is appropriate, but north of 10th Street should be preserved as a t...
BETINA FINLEY

I would go to Atlanta if they give me an extra part.
ANDY FINLEY

I'm suggesting that [Bush] is Saddam Hussein, the evil-doer.
KAREN FINLEY

What I wanted was to explore various different levels of the comfort-crisis aspect of the nation. It...
KAREN FINLEY

I will be looking at the FCC content restrictions on Howard Stern,
KAREN FINLEY

I'm sorry to see them go.
KAREN FINLEY

We were more looking to July when Mo turns 40 for the all-40 outfield.
STEVE FINLEY

I realize he's been beaten seven out of eight times, but he's a good solid horse. He's not a dazzlin...
TERRY FINLEY

The secret self knows the anguish of our attachments and assures us that letting go of what we think...
GUY FINLEY

This is the most important art exhibit that has ever come to Milwaukee. It features world-class art ...
DAN FINLEY

I just have to keep working my rear-end off, ... I'm not going to pout; that is not going to do anyb...
STEVE FINLEY

He's really learning to steal bases. He's grown as a base runner. He creates a lot of opportunities ...
STEVE FINLEY

It is not how you start; it's how you finish, ... I expect to make it a strong finish.
STEVE FINLEY

I've been comfortable in the box, but it doesn't always translate into results. This time of year, r...
STEVE FINLEY

In the National League, everybody always said the road to the World Series went through Atlanta. In ...
STEVE FINLEY

That's one reason there's so much drug abuse: people are not shown other ways to alter their conscio...
KAREN FINLEY

I loved Omar Vizquel. He tells some really long jokes, and he has his own way of telling them, but h...
STEVE FINLEY

Statistics vary, but in less than seven years there won't be a single cell left in any of our bo...
GUY FINLEY

We'll be staying on top of it, checking in every day with Ford, the state and union people.
DENIS FINLEY

There are 2,400 workers out there. They can't all get to the mayor and ask questions.
DENIS FINLEY

Obviously, I'm ecstatic about winning the sweepstakes award again this year. It's a testament to the...
DENIS FINLEY

My thing is, I want to play basketball, I would enjoy playing in the D-League, but at the same time ...
MICHAEL FINLEY

Being part of the Fresh Healthy Vending team and the corporate-owned operations division has been in...
STEVE FINLEY

With Fresh Healthy Vending growing by the day, my role is ever-evolving, just as the company is, and...
STEVE FINLEY

With the high attendance, we're encouraging people to make advance reservations online or by phone f...
DAN FINLEY

This will be a wonderful addition to the museum's bottom line, but there will still be a ways to go.
DAN FINLEY

"I can't handle the fact that I seem to be the only person I know who's creative."
FINLEY QUAYE

Brie has personified St. Thomas soccer ever since she stepped on the field four years ago. She is a ...
GARY FINLEY

We have more experience up front and I'm confident in what I've seen so far.
GARY FINLEY

we are not here on earth to change our destiny but to fulfill it.
GUY FINLEY

Right now, the systems that are most trustworthy are optical scan paper ballots. They have the benef...
LOWELL FINLEY

Dale is somewhat community-minded. He does have a raw water tap ... that he could use the heck out o...
KATHY FINLEY

We love doing for students at Albuquerque High.
KATHY FINLEY

We never came out and said it was stolen. It was gone. You wonder why and who would have done that.
KATHY FINLEY

The United States calls on all concerned to avoid the harsh language that has recently blemished the...
JULIE FINLEY

Since the election, authorities have already detained over 100 peaceful protesters and opposition su...
JULIE FINLEY

The guys have welcomed me with open arms and I am getting more comfortable,
MICHAEL FINLEY

I've talked to some guys who've won championships, and the one thing coming into the next season is ...
MICHAEL FINLEY

(In San Antonio), I knew what I was getting into from a team standpoint, from a coaching standpoint.
MICHAEL FINLEY

We go through our lives in a continual dance of being filled with something that needs an answer, an...
GUY FINLEY

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to...
GUY FINLEY

But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But...
IRENE DUNNE

I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.
IRENE DUNNE

Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
IRENE DUNNE

You see I found I didn't have to act to be happy.
IRENE DUNNE

A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle.
IRENE DUNNE

And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films.
IRENE DUNNE

I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who...
DOMINICK DUNNE

Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.
GRIFFIN DUNNE

I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroo...
DOMINICK DUNNE

But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any s...
GRIFFIN DUNNE

I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we go...
GRIFFIN DUNNE

But it may be too politically unpalatable in the U.S..
MICHAEL DUNNE

For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.
DOMINICK DUNNE

This is a watershed in the development of the auto industry in China. The Chinese formed joint ventu...
MICHAEL DUNNE

Why the spurt? Small cars powered by gas-sipping engines that start at $4,000.
MICHAEL DUNNE

When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away w...
DOMINICK DUNNE

My old man always told me to retrace my steps, but what’s the point if I can’t remember where my...
JONATHAN DUNNE

My old man always told me never do anything during the day that will keep you awake at night.
JONATHAN DUNNE

Even if we don’t have a clock, we’re all on the clock – from clocking in and out at work to cl...
JONATHAN DUNNE

Lately, their love had been reduced to yellow emojis.
JONATHAN DUNNE

So how do you know she was a mermaid if you didn’t see her bottom half?
JONATHAN DUNNE

In the '80s, I can't say that Amy and I were aware of an independent film community. We coul...
GRIFFIN DUNNE

I think we kind of underestimated them. We came out tired. When we realized that we weren't playing ...
KELLY DUNNE

Hyundai's ascendancy shows that American consumers are always open to a good deal.
MICHAEL DUNNE

There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if...
PHILIP DUNNE

Seeing his daughter slowly die, coupled with his infinite sadness and misery, the clockmaker becomes...
JONATHAN DUNNE

I didn't lead a very wise life, myself, but it was a full one and a grown-up one. You come of ag...
PHILIP DUNNE

I've always felt I was shortchanged in the departments of height and physique.
DOMINICK DUNNE

New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most p...
GRIFFIN DUNNE

It's always bittersweet to sell your client. But hopefully you're never really selling the business,...
JIMMY DUNNE

John and the North Fork team gave us a chance. And Herman was a great teacher and partner. He always...
JIMMY DUNNE

Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and a...
GRIFFIN DUNNE

What do you mean? In Old Castle? I still live with my parents in case you haven’t noticed, Jack. T...
JONATHAN DUNNE

We were paying attention to the $500 million and $1 billion companies 10 years ago, so when they gro...
JIMMY DUNNE

No, there was nothing unusual in any of these dreams as dreams. They were merely displaced in Time.
J.W. DUNNE

In my own case, I employed this experiment mainly in order to seek for the barrier, if any, which di...
J.W. DUNNE

Our intention, over time, is to drive a substantial amount of our revenue onto a multi-trip flight-p...
BRIAN DUNNE

She was a gallant soul. I knew her from way back because Gig Young was a good friend of mine. I alwa...
DOMINICK DUNNE

They are left out there with egg on their face.
DOMINICK DUNNE

[So and so] is still alive?!
DOMINICK DUNNE

I am so bummed out. I had gotten all excited about Catholicism again. I just loved all the people an...
DOMINICK DUNNE

But some jokes are hilarious until they become true and they’re not so funny anymore.
JONATHAN DUNNE

I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.
GRIFFIN DUNNE

You’re wrong about one thing: fairy-tales do exist. Millions of existing parents read existing fai...
JONATHAN DUNNE

I always wonder why condescending snarkiness is the chosen method of communication for so many forum...
GAVIN DUNNE

People I know inside Chery say (it will happen) no sooner than 2008.
MICHAEL DUNNE

People get a lot of 'wow' here. You can see a sky so crowded with swallows, it reduces the amount of...
PETE DUNNE

It was quite a heady time. Living in a guesthouse in the hills and just having a crazy life. And I t...
ROBIN DUNNE

That venue is set up for dancing.
RICHARD DUNNE

Nothing encourages creativity like the chance to fall flat on one's face.
JAMES D. FINLEY

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
JOHN HUSTON FINLEY

Were it not for Jackie Robinson, Branch Rickey would be remembered, if at all, as a Bible-thumping m...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, b...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

There are no new facts about the Kennedys, only new attitudes, a literature that, like the automobil...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Anecdotes are factoids of questionable provenance, burnished to a high gloss, often set in gilded ve...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Evading military service has a long history in American life.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Being exposed to the enlisted Army was an eye-opener. I thought everyone was like me, but the enlist...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Writing is manual labor of the mind: a job, like laying pipe.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Class was always the domestic issue during the Vietnam War, not communism.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

The volunteer military has always been most enthusiastically, even devoutly, embraced by those who w...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Conspiracy is a small but durable seller, retooled every year or so.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

An Episcopalian military institution when it was founded near the turn of the century, Harvard for y...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not fo...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Most anyplace one lives is essentially dangerous. There are floods in the Midwest, and tornadoes. Th...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

In what purports to be an egalitarian society, the existence of class is the secret about which no o...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

I liked Los Angeles for odd reasons. For one, there was no sense of community. You were really left ...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

For interns at 'The Weekly Standard' or 'National Review,' where the martial instinc...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

There are no legends about the Duponts; the legends are about Howard Hughes.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Unlike Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, Jackie Robinson never tried to convert himself into an accept...
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Writing is manual labor of the mind - like laying pipe.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive.
JOHN GREGORY DUNNE

Th' newspaper does ivrything f'r us. It runs th' polis foorce an' th' banks, commands th' milishy, controls th'ligislachure, baptizes th' young, marries th' foolish, comforts th' afflicted, afflicts th' comfortable, buries th' dead an' roasts thim aftherward. - "Mr. Dooley's Opinions", 1900.

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