1.
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
Austin O'Malley
2.
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
3.
Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.
Austin O'Malley
4.
Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.
Austin O'Malley
5.
If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.
Austin O'Malley
6.
Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.
Austin O'Malley
7.
The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.
Austin O'Malley
8.
We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.
Austin O'Malley
9.
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
Austin O'Malley
10.
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
Austin O'Malley
11.
Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.
Austin O'Malley
12.
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
Austin O'Malley
13.
The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.
Austin O'Malley
14.
When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.
Austin O'Malley
15.
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
Austin O'Malley
16.
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
Austin O'Malley
17.
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
Austin O'Malley
18.
The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.
Austin O'Malley
19.
Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.
Austin O'Malley
20.
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
Austin O'Malley
21.
Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.
Austin O'Malley
22.
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
Austin O'Malley
23.
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
Austin O'Malley
24.
No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.
Austin O'Malley
25.
Wisdom grows in quiet places.
Austin O'Malley
26.
Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.
Austin O'Malley
27.
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
28.
Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy
Austin O'Malley
29.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Austin O'Malley
30.
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
31.
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
32.
Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.
Austin O'Malley
33.
A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.
Austin O'Malley
34.
Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.
Austin O'Malley
35.
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
36.
A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.
Austin O'Malley
37.
Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
Austin O'Malley
38.
Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.
Austin O'Malley
39.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
Austin O'Malley
40.
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
41.
The perfection of art is to conceal the sources.
Austin O'Malley
42.
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
43.
The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.
Austin O'Malley
44.
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
45.
All things come to him who waits - even justice.
Austin O'Malley
46.
Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.
Austin O'Malley
47.
Patience is moral elasticity.
Austin O'Malley
48.
It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.
Austin O'Malley
49.
If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity.
Austin O'Malley
50.
An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.
Austin O'Malley