Austin O'Malley Quotes and Sayings - Page 5

“The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Dream #Bigger

“The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Truth #World

“A woman, like a cross-eyed man, looks one way, but goes another--hence her mysteriousness.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Women #Looks #Way

“Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#House #Genius #Talent

“Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Pruning #Persecution #Orchard

“The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#War #Gunpowder #Monk

“In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Sheep #Liberty #Skins

“Humility is pride in God.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Humility #Pride

“Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Wine #Despair #Vinegar

“A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Truth #Worship #Enough

“Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#House #Literature #Coats

“There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Church #Inheritance #Conviction

“The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Evil #World #Mixtures

“Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Soul #Gold #Settling

“Friends made fast seldom remain fast.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Friends #Made

“If all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#White #Looks #Blooming

“Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Inspirational #Views #Ulcers

“Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Gun #Envy #Locks

“You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#God #Clothes #Evening

“Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Truth #Folks #Handle

“The half-baked sermon causes spiritual indigestion”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Spiritual #Half #Causes

“And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Death #Silence #May

“If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Cat #Ignorant #Enough

“Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Feet #Over You #Faces

“The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Eye #Perfect #Criticism

“Nations die first in the big cities.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Cities #Firsts #Bigs

“That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Church #Tails #Scandal

“The perfection of art is to conceal the sources.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Art #Perfection #Source

“If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Cutting #Acquaintance #Ifs

“Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.”
-- Austin O'Malley

#Art #Philosophy #Steam