Quotes from Austin O'Malley

If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

The statesman shears the sheep the politician skins them.

Humility is pride in God.

We should thank God that He did not give us the power of hearing through walls; otherwise there would be no such thing as friendship.

Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.

You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

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.

Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

Ugliness is a point of view; an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.

When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.

If you learn from a loss you have not lost.

There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"

A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.

A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.