“Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.”
Source: Keystones Of Thought
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Famous Austin O'Malley Quotes
“Boards of public charity were invented by the devil to prevent real individual charity.”
“Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.”
“Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.”
“Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.”
“A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.”
“You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.”
“A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.”
“There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.”
“If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.”
“The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.”
“Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.”
“If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.”
“Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.”
“If all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat.”
“Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.”
“The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.”
“We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.”
“Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside.”
“Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.”
“Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.”