Austin O'Malley Quotes

Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.

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

Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.

Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.

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

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

The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.

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

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.

If you learn from a loss you have not lost.

Charity is the note that resolves the discord.

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

That art is best which suggests most.

Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.

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

Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.

The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.

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

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

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

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

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

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy

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

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

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

All things come to him who waits - even justice.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

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

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

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

A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.

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

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

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

No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.

Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.

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

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

Humility is pride in God.

It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.