Top 208 Quotes & Sayings by Austin O'Malley - Page 2

A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

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

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

Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.

It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.

Those who cook up stories will get into hot water.

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

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

Every April God rewrites the book of Genesis.

All things come to him who waits - even justice.

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

Worry is half impatience and half ignorance.

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

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

Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.

Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.

Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.

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

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

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

The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Most mysteries are soluble in time.

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

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

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

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

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

If you scratch some saints you will find the devil.

Better a bald head than none at all.

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

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

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

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

Charity is the note that resolves the discord.

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

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

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

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.

Life is a charity ball given by the leaders of society. A few dance, get their charity's worth to the last penny; and the poor stand outside the gate and watch with hungry eyes the glint of jewels in the warm air. Then comes the lackey Death, and he says: "Madam and my Master, your carriage waits." So they go away into the dark in the carriage of the black plumes, and the dancing continues.

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

Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.

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

The perjurer's mother told white lies.

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

The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.

Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.

Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.

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

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

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

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