Austin O'Malley

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

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

The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.

A child is an uncut diamond.

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

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.

Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.

When the Devil is not fishing he is mending his nets.

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

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

The perjurer's mother told white lies.

Civilization sails prettily like a childs rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.

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

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

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

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

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

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

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

Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.

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

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.

Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.

If you learn from a loss you have not lost.

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

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.

Delay is a bitter tonic but it increases appetite.

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

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

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.

Envy is a gun with a faulty breech lock which flares back and burns the gunner.

Cunning is a short blanket if you pull it over your face you expose your feet.

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

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

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

Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.

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

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.

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

Our sins are like a carousel where the same decorated dogs pigs and goats ridden by the foolish come around again and again until the machine wears out.