Among men, Hinnissy, wet eye manes dhry heart.

In Dunne’s Irish-dialect voice, the line suggests a paradox of masculine feeling: public tears (“wet eye”) can be a sign not of weakness but of emotional honesty, while the man who never cries may be the one with the “dry heart,” incapable of sympathy. Addressed to “Hinnissy” (a recurring interlocutor in the Mr. Dooley sketches), it reads like a barroom aphorism that punctures conventional bravado. The misspelled phonetics are part of the point: plainspoken, working-class wisdom delivered with comic compression, challenging the idea that stoicism is the highest form of manliness.