Top 208 Quotes & Sayings by Austin O'Malley
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American scientist Austin O'Malley.
Last updated on April 12, 2025.
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
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 home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
When walking through the 'valley of shadows,' remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity.
Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.
The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.
The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.
Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.
You can't change the world But you can change the facts And when you change the facts You change points of view If you change points of view You may change a vote And when you change a vote You may change the world
Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
Wisdom grows in quiet places.
Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.
If the devil went about doing a tenth of what he is accused of doing he would be poor from paying the blacksmith for ox-shoes for his hooves.
The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.
Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.
Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.
Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.
The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses.
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.
Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
If you learn from a loss you have not lost.
Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.
The most dangerous savages live in cities.
Patience is moral elasticity.
The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.
You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.
The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.
Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.
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 rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.
Law is the rudder of the ship of state.
Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.
There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.
No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.
It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.
After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.
The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.
They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.
The living have their eyes opened by closing the eyes of the dead.
Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.
If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.
If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.
Those who have suffered are best able to help those who are suffering.
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