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

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

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Austin O'Malley

Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity.

— Austin O'Malley

A woman, like a cross-eyed man, looks one way, but goes another--hence her mysteriousness.

— Austin O'Malley

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

— 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,…

— Austin O'Malley

And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change…

— Austin O'Malley

The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.

— Austin O'Malley

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

— 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

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

— 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…

— Austin O'Malley

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Austin O'Malley

There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.

— Austin O'Malley

The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Austin O'Malley

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

— Austin O'Malley

The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul.

— Austin O'Malley

Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.

— Austin O'Malley

If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.

— Austin O'Malley

Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Austin O'Malley

Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.

— Austin O'Malley

You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.

— Austin O'Malley

If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.

— Austin O'Malley

The half-baked sermon causes spiritual indigestion

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Austin O'Malley

You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.

— Austin O'Malley

If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Austin O'Malley

Those who have suffered are best able to help those who are suffering.

— Austin O'Malley

The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses.

— Austin O'Malley

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

— Austin O'Malley

Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside.

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Austin O'Malley