Austin O'Malley famous quotes

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Waiting #Knees #Ifs

You can't change the world But you can change the facts And when you change the facts You change points of view If you change points of view You may change a vote And when you change a vote You may change the world
-- Austin O'Malley

#Views #Voting #Facts

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Men #Age #Coats

No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Matter #Lasts #Shovels

Patience is moral elasticity.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Patience #Moral #Elasticity

The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Son #Doors #Heaven

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Marriage #Important Events #Three

Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Funny #Memories #Crazy

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Art #Awkward #Technique

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Thinking #Pacing #Englishmen

Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Reform #Vehement #Pairs

Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Dog #Men #Advice

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Art #Character #Infusion

Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Life #Lakes #Water

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Lying #Ability #Loses

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Funny #Friendship #Best Friend

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Truth #Honesty #Liars

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Waiting #Delay #Bitter

If the devil went about doing a tenth of what he is accused of doing he would be poor from paying the blacksmith for ox-shoes for his hooves.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Shoes #Devil #Would Be

Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Music #Music Is

Those who have suffered are best able to help those who are suffering.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Suffering #Able #Helping

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Inspirational #Fathers Day #Dad

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Funny #Money #Kindness

If you learn from a loss you have not lost.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Inspirational #Learning #Sunset

Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Real #Devil #Boards

The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Devil #Not Afraid #Altars

The most dangerous savages live in cities.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Cities #Savages #Dangerous

If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Truth #Cutting #Fingers

Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Wisdom #Ignorance #Consciousness

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Feet #Silence #Mouths

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Prayer #Mean #Men

The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Government #People #Boss

Law is the rudder of the ship of state.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Law #Ships #Rudders

A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Men #Color #Roots

They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Women #Soul #Secret

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Men #Stronger #Privilege

You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Truth #Fields

After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Sex #Men #Feelings

Wisdom grows in quiet places.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Wisdom #Quiet #Grows

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Crush #Truth #Lying

The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Soul #Earth #Determine

It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Habit #Easier #Thistles

A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Knowledge #Games #Damage

Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Mind #Lamps #Reason

Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Liberty #Half

Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Wisdom #Bread #Flour

All things come to him who waits - even justice.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Patience #Justice #Waiting

Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Men #Play #Church

We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Fashion #Dresses #Following

It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Giving #Advice #Useless

Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Truth #Doors #Rags

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Children #Causes #Beats

Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Lonely #Progress #Mountain

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Men #Two #Evil

Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Jail #Evil #Desire

Civilization sails prettily like a child's rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Children #Civilization #Balloons

Every April God rewrites the book of Genesis.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Spring #Book #April

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Pride #Riches #Characteristics

Those who cook up stories will get into hot water.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Water #Hot #Stories

True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Charity #True Patriotism #Nations

The living have their eyes opened by closing the eyes of the dead.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Eye #Closing

Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Justice #Hatred #Charity

If you scratch some saints you will find the devil.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Devil #Saint #Scratches

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Life #Men #Snakes

A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Book #Pay #Form

There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"
-- Austin O'Malley

#Inspirational #Children #Kids

The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Understanding #Reason #Particular

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Art #Wheat Fields #Imagination

Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Truth #Eggs

We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Wall #Giving #Thank God

A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Successful #Men #Apples

The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Fear #Shirts #Danger

The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Art #Swings #Form

There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Passing Away #Literature #Deeds

We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Fire #Gains #Youth

The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Loneliness #Quality #Life Is

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Men #Fire #Ideas

Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Gratitude #Rain #Rose

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Editors #Public Opinion #Politician

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Men #Insanity #Insane

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Dog #Revenge #Anger

Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy
-- Austin O'Malley

#Atheist #Philosophy #Mind

You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Dollars #Idealism #Ideals

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Fall #Knowledge #Men

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Eye #Heaven #Looks

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Friendship #Funny Friend #Two

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Photography #Color #Oil

A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Book #Doors #Circus

Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Winning #Men #Advice

Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Moving #Men #Orbit

Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Heart #Sorrow #May

The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Lying #Years #Differences

Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Light #Owl #Suspicion

Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Happiness #Water #Gold

The perjurer's mother told white lies.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Mother #Liars #Lying

The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Age #Sun #Passionate

If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Hypocrite #Mean #Ends

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Men #Thinking #Liberty

Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Liars #Saint #Riches

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.
-- Austin O'Malley

#Inspirational #Children #Humorous