Famous Quotes / Austin O'Malley
22 Quotations by Austin O'Malley
- 1. A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
- 2. A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
- 3. An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
- 4. Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
- 5. Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.
- 6. Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.
- 7. God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
- 8. Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
- 9. If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
- 10. In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
- 11. It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.
- 12. Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escap ...
- 13. Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
- 14. Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
- 15. Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
- 16. Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
- 17. The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
- 18. The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.
- 19. The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledg ...
- 20. The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.