Austin OMalley Quotes (41 Quotes)

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

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

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

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

All things come to him who waits even justice.

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

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

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

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

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

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

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

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

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

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

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

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

The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.

When walking through the "valley of shadows," remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

When there is no will there is a way for the lawyers

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.

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

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

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

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

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it

The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito

Facts are carpet-tacks under the pneumatic tires of theory

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

Truth lives in the cellar error on the doorstep.

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

The weaker the man in authority, the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

Some that will hold a creed unto martyrdom will not hold the truth against a sneering laugh

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

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

Most public speakers talk so badly that a sudden quotation from a poet appears in their babble like a lady in a slum