Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in… — Austin O'Malley Clotheslines Copy Share Image
They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in… — Austin O'Malley Certain Copy Share Image
Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water. — Austin O'Malley Buckets Copy Share Image
The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death. — Austin O'Malley Birth 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
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 Apple trees Copy Share Image
The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks. — Austin O'Malley Bigger Copy Share Image
Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts. — Austin O'Malley Animal Copy Share Image
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father. — Austin O'Malley Extraordinary Copy Share Image
Our lives are waves that come up out of the ocean of eternity, break upon the beach of earth, and lapse back… — Austin O'Malley Beach Copy Share Image
Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind. — Austin O'Malley Lamps Copy Share Image
The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal. — Austin O'Malley Appendix Copy Share Image
The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again. — Austin O'Malley Art 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 Editors Copy Share Image
It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead. — Austin O'Malley Books Copy Share Image
