Never carry your shotgun or your knowledge at half-cock.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Knowledge
Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Pride
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Father, Family, Fathers
Avarice is wider than injustice, and all fallen nations lost liberty through avarice which engendered injustice.
—Austin O’Malley
A coal fire softens iron, and sorrow softens a man’s heart, but both revert to the original hardness.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Sorrow
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Truth
Sorrow is the source of literature, joy is the source of virtue.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Sorrow
You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Solitude
You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.
—Austin O’Malley
The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: War
Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Memory, Memories
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Friendship, Friends and Friendship
Before you beat a child, be sure you yourself are not the cause of the offense.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Children
Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Religion
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
Humility is pride in God
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Pride
If you intend to use a horse a whole day and a love for a lifetime, keep the reins taut in the morning.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Love
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Revenge
You may live in the fashionable quarter of town, but there is a dark slum somewhere on your property.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Society
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
Physical science reads through its sense of touch like a blind man, and the supply of books in braille type on the spiritual life is very small.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Science
There is as close a connection between youth and faith as between age and compromise.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Youth
The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
—Austin O’Malley
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Nationalism, Nationalities, Nationality, Nation
Private interpretation in religion is like cutting your own hair.
—Austin O’Malley
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.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Advice
If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.
—Austin O’Malley
It usually takes as many generations to make a religious convert as to make a gentleman.
—Austin O’Malley
Topics: Religion
That the Saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.
—Austin O’Malley
Busy souls have no time to be busybodies.
—Austin O’Malley
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
- Kimberly Johnson American Poet
- James H. Austin American Buddhist Neuroscientist
- John Kotter American Management Consultant
- 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
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