Austin O'Malley

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

— Austin O'Malley

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.

— Austin O'Malley

The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.

— Austin O'Malley

You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.

— Austin O'Malley

Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Austin O'Malley

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.

— Austin O'Malley

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

— 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

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

The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.

— 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

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.

— Austin O'Malley

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

— Austin O'Malley

Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when…

— Austin O'Malley

Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water;…

— Austin O'Malley

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

— 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

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

— Austin O'Malley

Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.

— 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

An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about.

— Austin O'Malley

When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.

— Austin O'Malley

Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Austin O'Malley

Charity that is always beginning at home stays there.

— 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

We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.

— Austin O'Malley

A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.

— Austin O'Malley

Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.

— Austin O'Malley

Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity.

— Austin O'Malley

That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Austin O'Malley

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Austin O'Malley

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.

— Austin O'Malley

Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.

— Austin O'Malley

Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.

— Austin O'Malley

“Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.”

— Austin O'Malley

A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.

— Austin O'Malley