Quotes from Austin O'Malley

A politician is like quicksilver if you try to put your finger on him, you will find nothing under it.

Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.

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

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.

Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.

The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.

You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.

Most mysteries are soluble in time.

A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.

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

Some folks never handle the truth without scratching it.

Those who deserve love the least need it the most.

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

Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.

Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.

Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.

Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.

You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.

If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.

The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.

The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.

Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.