Finley Peter Dunne

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

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

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. ”

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it. ”

Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable. ”

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

One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones that never have it. ”

Trust everybody, but cut the cards. ”