Quotes from Austin O'Malley

When walking through the 'valley of shadows,' remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.

Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.

Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.

Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.

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.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

Art is one of man's few serious activities.

Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.

Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.

God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.

A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.

The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

Patience is moral elasticity.

All things come to him who waits - even justice.

Patience has tender feet.

Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy