Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Honesty
Education should be a conscious, methodical application of the best means in the wisdom of the ages to the end that youth may know how to live completely.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Education
A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Memory
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.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Woman
Sorrow is the source of literature, joy is the source of virtue.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Sorrow
A politician is like quick-silver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Politics
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Taxation, Taxes
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Wealth, Money
An agnostic is a street faker that shuts his good eyes and holds out the placard, ‘I am blind’.
—Austin O’Malley
The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Dreams
You may live in the fashionable quarter of town, but there is a dark slum somewhere on your property.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Society
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Family, Father, Fathers
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Friends and Friendship
Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Religion
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
—Austin O’Malley
Never carry your shotgun or your knowledge at half-cock.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Knowledge
You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.
—Austin O’Malley
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Revenge
Religion is a process of turning your skull into a tabernacle, not of going up to Jerusalem once a year.
—Austin O’Malley
Humility is pride in God.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Pride
If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Hypocrisy
There is as close a connection between youth and faith as between age and compromise.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Youth
Before you beat a child, be sure you yourself are not the cause of the offense.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Children
If a man is a rascal do not blame him, but abuse his great grandfather—that is ‘scientific’ and it annoys no one.
—Austin O’Malley
The novel you like is like you.
—Austin O’Malley
Avarice is wider than injustice, and all fallen nations lost liberty through avarice which engendered injustice.
—Austin O’Malley
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Nationality, Nation, Nationalism, Nationalities
Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Pride
Private interpretation in religion is like cutting your own hair.
—Austin O’Malley
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Silence
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- Warren Bennis American Management Consultant
- E. L. Doctorow American Novelist
- E. O. Wilson American Sociobiologist
- George P. Shultz American Diplomat
- Toni Morrison American Novelist
- Howard Gardner American Psychologist
- Thomas Szasz Hungarian Psychiatrist
- Germaine Greer Australia Academic
- Stephen Hawking English Theoretical Physicist
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