Austin O'Malley

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

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Austin O'Malley

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

— 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

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

— Austin O'Malley

Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.

— Austin O'Malley

Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

— Austin O'Malley

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

— Austin O'Malley

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

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

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

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

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.

— Austin O'Malley

We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in…

— Austin O'Malley

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.

— Austin O'Malley

Death is an antidote for this life, and it makes another more stable form of life which is insoluble in everything.

— Austin O'Malley

Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.

— Austin O'Malley

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

— Austin O'Malley

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

— Austin O'Malley

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

— Austin O'Malley

Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.

— Austin O'Malley

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

— Austin O'Malley

Those who cook up stories will get into hot water.

— Austin O'Malley

Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.

— Austin O'Malley

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

— 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

Charity that is always beginning at home stays there.

— 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

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

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Austin O'Malley

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

— 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

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

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Austin O'Malley

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

— 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

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

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Austin O'Malley