Quotes from Austin O'Malley

Love dwindles by pairing.

The best blood will sometimes get into a fool or a mosquito.

A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.

An Englishman thinks seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an Irishman, afterward.

Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.

History is a vast dust-heap of falsehood with a few pennies of truth scattered through it.

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

Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.

A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

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

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

Possess your soul without fussing; your guardian angel does not lose half the sleep over you you think he does.

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist's own character, if he has one.

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

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

The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: "Lazarus, come forth!" and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.

Childhood has no necessary connection with age.