Austin O'Malley Quotes

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

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

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

Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.

Those who cook up stories will get into hot water.

True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation.

A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.

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

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

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

You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.

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

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

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

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

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

If you learn from a loss you have not lost.

The most dangerous savages live in cities.

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

The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.

The living have their eyes opened by closing the eyes of the dead.

Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.

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

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

Worry is half impatience and half ignorance.

The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.

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

If you scratch some saints you will find the devil.

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

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

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

The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.

We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship.

The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.

Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.

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

Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.

The perjurer's mother told white lies.

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

Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.

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

Better a bald head than none at all.

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

If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.

Laws are made by the old, exceptions by the young.

Most mysteries are soluble in time.

Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.

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

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.