Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Austin O’Malley (American Aphorist, Ophthalmologist)

Austin O’Malley (1858–1932) was an American aphorist, ophthalmologist, and pathologist. He was the author of the book of aphorisms Keystones of Thought (1914.)

Born in Pittston, Pennsylvania, O’Malley entered Fordham University at age 14 and later studied philosophy and languages at the Gregorian University in Rome. After shifting to medicine and studying at Georgetown and the University of Berlin, he returned to America as a bacteriologist and pathologist. He championed the use of the newly-discovered diphtheria antitoxin serum.

O’Malley served as a professor of English literature at the University of Notre Dame 1895–1902 and became a reputed lecturer on Dante’s poetry. Following a short period of ill health, he became an ophthalmologist specializing in diseases of the eye at Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia.

O’Malley wrote on literary and medical subjects; his works include Thoughts of a Recluse (1898,) Essays in Pastoral Medicine (1906,) The Cure of Alcoholism (1913,) and Ethics of Medical Homicide and Mutilation (1920.)

O’Malley was a brother of the playwright and writer Frank Ward O’Malley.

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Busy souls have no time to be busybodies.
Austin O’Malley

One of the most important truths in the world is that there is worth enough in any rascal to cost the spilling of the Precious Blood.
Austin O’Malley
Topics: Worth

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

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
Austin O’Malley
Topics: Reason

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

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

If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.
Austin O’Malley

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

Avarice is wider than injustice, and all fallen nations lost liberty through avarice which engendered injustice.
Austin O’Malley

That the Saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.
Austin O’Malley

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
Austin O’Malley
Topics: Prayer

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
Austin O’Malley
Topics: Happiness

The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.
Austin O’Malley
Topics: War

Sorrow is the source of literature, joy is the source of virtue.
Austin O’Malley
Topics: Sorrow

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
Austin O’Malley
Topics: Truth

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
Austin O’Malley

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
Austin O’Malley
Topics: Friendship, Friends and Friendship

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.
Austin O’Malley
Topics: Solitude

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.
Austin O’Malley
Topics: Religion

There is as close a connection between youth and faith as between age and compromise.
Austin O’Malley
Topics: Youth

The harder you throw down a football and a good character, the higher they rebound; but a thrown reputation is like an egg.
Austin O’Malley
Topics: Character

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
Austin O’Malley
Topics: Honesty

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Austin O’Malley
Topics: Family, Fathers, Father

Religion is a process of turning your skull into a tabernacle, not of going up to Jerusalem once a year.
Austin O’Malley

The novel you like is like you.
Austin O’Malley

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
Austin O’Malley
Topics: Memories, Memory

An agnostic is a street faker that shuts his good eyes and holds out the placard, ‘I am blind’.
Austin O’Malley

A habit of debt is very injurious to the memory.
Austin O’Malley
Topics: Memory

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