Quotes from Austin O'Malley

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.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.

Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.

The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.

Life is being, not having.

Death is an antidote for this life, and it makes another more stable form of life which is insoluble in everything.

You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.

You can buy life only with life.

When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.

Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.

Marriage is a meal where the soup is better than the dessert.

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

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

Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.

If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.

Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.

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

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

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.