A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger. — Austin O'Malley Cat Copy Share Image
No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
The living have their eyes opened by closing the eyes of the dead. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in… — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop… — Austin O'Malley Carpenter 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
If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes. — Austin O'Malley 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 Copy Share Image
The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal. — Austin O'Malley Learning Copy Share Image
The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages,… — Austin O'Malley Age Copy Share Image
There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away… — Austin O'Malley Books Copy Share Image
