Austin O'Malley Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Waiting #Knees #Ifs

“You can't change the world But you can change the facts And when you change the facts You change points of view If you change points of view You may change a vote And when you change a vote You may change the world”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Views #Voting #Facts

“The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Men #Age #Coats

“No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Matter #Lasts #Shovels

“Patience is moral elasticity.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Patience #Moral #Elasticity

“The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Son #Doors #Heaven

“The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Marriage #Important Events #Three

“Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Funny #Memories #Crazy

“Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Art #Awkward #Technique

“An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Thinking #Pacing #Englishmen

“Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Reform #Vehement #Pairs

“Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Dog #Men #Advice

“The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Art #Character #Infusion

“Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Life #Lakes #Water

“Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Lying #Ability #Loses

“A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Funny #Friendship #Best Friend

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

#Truth #Honesty #Liars

“Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Waiting #Delay #Bitter

“If the devil went about doing a tenth of what he is accused of doing he would be poor from paying the blacksmith for ox-shoes for his hooves.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Shoes #Devil #Would Be

“Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Music #Music Is

“Those who have suffered are best able to help those who are suffering.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Suffering #Able #Helping

“The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Inspirational #Fathers Day #Dad

“God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Funny #Money #Kindness

“If you learn from a loss you have not lost.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Inspirational #Learning #Sunset

“Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Real #Devil #Boards

“The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Devil #Not Afraid #Altars

“The most dangerous savages live in cities.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Cities #Savages #Dangerous

“If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Truth #Cutting #Fingers

“Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Wisdom #Ignorance #Consciousness

“If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Feet #Silence #Mouths