Austin O'Malley Quotes

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Most public speakers talk so badly that a sudden quotation from a poet appears in their babble like a lady in a slum. - Austin O'Malley quote.
Most public speakers talk so badly that a sudden quotation from a poet appears in their babble like a lady in a slum.
— Austin O'Malley Keystones of Thought

oratory quotations

The perjurer's mother told white lies. - Austin O'Malley quote.
The perjurer's mother told white lies.
— Austin O'Malley Keystones of Thought

lies white lies

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope. - Austin O'Malley quote.
Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
— Austin O'Malley Keystones of Thought

despair

An essential quality of beauty is aloofness. - Austin O'Malley quote.
An essential quality of beauty is aloofness.
— Austin O'Malley Keystones of Thought

beauty

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it. - Austin O'Malley quote.
Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.
— Austin O'Malley Keystones of Thought

wit humor wit vs. humor

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius. - Austin O'Malley quote.
Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.
— Austin O'Malley Keystones of Thought

genius talent talent & genius

Physical science is truth with her wings clipped. - Austin O'Malley quote.
Physical science is truth with her wings clipped.
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The best throw of the dice is to throw them away. - Austin O'Malley quote.
The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.
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gambling

If wise men were hairs, the world would need a wig. - Austin O'Malley quote.
If wise men were hairs, the world would need a wig.
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Facts are carpet-tacks under the pneumatic tires of theory. - Austin O'Malley quote.
Facts are carpet-tacks under the pneumatic tires of theory.
— Austin O'Malley Keystones of Thought

facts

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you. - Austin O'Malley quote.
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
— Austin O'Malley Keystones of Thought

revenge

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it. - Austin O'Malley quote.
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market. - Austin O'Malley quote.
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
— Austin O'Malley Keystones of Thought

friendship

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food. - Austin O'Malley quote.
Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.
— Austin O'Malley Keystones of Thought

memory

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art. - Austin O'Malley quote.
Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.
— Austin O'Malley Keystones of Thought

art

Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. - Austin O'Malley quote.
Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
— Austin O'Malley Keystones of Thought

lies white lies

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind. - Austin O'Malley quote.
Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.
— Austin O'Malley

lying

Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner. - Austin O'Malley quote.
Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.
— Austin O'Malley Keystones of Thought

envy

Before you beat a child, be sure you yourself are not the cause of the offense. - Austin O'Malley quote.
Before you beat a child, be sure you yourself are not the cause of the offense.
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Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine. - Austin O'Malley quote.
Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.
— Austin O'Malley

old age religion

We use religion like a trolley-car—we ride on it only while it is going our way. - Austin O'Malley quote.
We use religion like a trolley-car—we ride on it only while it is going our way.
— Austin O'Malley Keystones of Thought

religion

There is as close a connection between youth and faith as between age and compromise. - Austin O'Malley quote.
There is as close a connection between youth and faith as between age and compromise.
— Austin O'Malley
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin. - Austin O'Malley quote.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
— Austin O'Malley Keystones of Thought

taxes

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell. - Austin O'Malley quote.
If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.
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vision

Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts. - Austin O'Malley quote.
Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.
— Austin O'Malley Keystones of Thought

conscience

The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage. - Austin O'Malley quote.
The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.
— Austin O'Malley Keystones of Thought

courage

Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass. - Austin O'Malley quote.
Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.
— Austin O'Malley Keystones of Thought

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