In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin. — Austin O'Malley Liberty Copy Share Image
A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it. — Austin O'Malley Book Copy Share Image
We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking. — Austin O'Malley Charity Copy Share Image
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Death is an antidote for this life, and it makes another more stable form of life which is insoluble in everything. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of… — Austin O'Malley Age Copy Share Image
If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and… — Austin O'Malley Cockles Copy Share Image
Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
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 Beauty Copy Share Image
We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such… — Austin O'Malley Friendship Copy Share Image
Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity. — Austin O'Malley Charity Copy Share Image
The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax. — Austin O'Malley Collision Copy Share Image
Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about. — Austin O'Malley Anxiety Copy Share Image
Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine. — Austin O'Malley Age Copy Share Image
Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist. — Austin O'Malley Inspirational Copy Share Image
You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors. — Austin O'Malley Clock Copy Share Image
Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night. — Austin O'Malley Dark Copy Share Image
The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert. — Austin O'Malley Desert Copy Share Image
