Austin O'Malley Quotes & Sayings

We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it. — Austin O'Malley

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

Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam. — Austin O'Malley

If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children. — Austin O'Malley

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

If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger. — Austin O'Malley

The half-baked sermon causes spiritual indigestion — Austin O'Malley

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

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

A small poet repeats himself like a clock. — Austin O'Malley

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

A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves. — Austin O'Malley

When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life. — Austin O'Malley

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

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

Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside. — Austin O'Malley

That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you. — Austin O'Malley

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist. — Austin O'Malley

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

If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's. — Austin O'Malley

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

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

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

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

That art is best which suggests most. — Austin O'Malley

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

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

Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better. — Austin O'Malley

You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic. — Austin O'Malley

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

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

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

Love dwindles by pairing. — Austin O'Malley

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

When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a light. — Austin O'Malley

A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it. — Austin O'Malley

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

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

Childhood has no necessary connection with age. — Austin O'Malley

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

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

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

There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction. — Austin O'Malley

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

Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts. — Austin O'Malley

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine. — Austin O'Malley

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

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

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

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

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

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

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks. — Austin O'Malley

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

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

Nations die first in the big cities. — Austin O'Malley

Cunning is a short blanket
if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet. — Austin O'Malley

Charity is the note that resolves the discord. — Austin O'Malley

Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew. — Austin O'Malley

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

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

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

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

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

The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren. — Austin O'Malley

Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another. — Austin O'Malley

An essential quality of beauty is aloofness. — Austin O'Malley

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

Friends made fast seldom remain fast. — Austin O'Malley

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

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

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

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

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

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

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it. — Austin O'Malley

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them. — Austin O'Malley

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

Those who deserve love the least need it the most. — Austin O'Malley

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude. — Austin O'Malley

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

A woman, like a cross-eyed man, looks one way, but goes another
hence her mysteriousness. — Austin O'Malley

Civilization is the world with its leg asleep. — Austin O'Malley

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

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

Art is one of man's few serious activities. — Austin O'Malley

A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough. — Austin O'Malley

The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity. — Austin O'Malley

If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance. — Austin O'Malley

Patience has tender feet. — Austin O'Malley

Humility is pride in God. — Austin O'Malley

An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about. — Austin O'Malley

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

Human truth is always soiled with falsehood. — Austin O'Malley

There are more gluttons than drunkards in hell. — Austin O'Malley

When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night. — Austin O'Malley

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye. — Austin O'Malley

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

The perfection of art is to conceal the sources. — Austin O'Malley

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