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
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 Writer
- E. O. Wilson American Sociobiologist
- George P. Shultz American Economist
- Toni Morrison American Novelist
- Howard Gardner American Psychologist
- Thomas Szasz Hungarian Psychiatrist
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