Austin O'Malley Quotes

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

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

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

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

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

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

Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.

When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.

Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.

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

Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

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.

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.

Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.

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

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.

A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

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

The perfection of art is to conceal the sources.

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.

The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.

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

All things come to him who waits - even justice.

Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.

Patience is moral elasticity.

It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.

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.

An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.