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Famous Austin O'Malley Quotes
“You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.”
“Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house.”
“That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.”
“Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.”
“The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.”
“If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.”
“Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.”
“Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.”
“We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.”
“You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.”
“The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul.”
“Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.”
“The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.”
“You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.”
“The monk that invented gunpowder did as much to stop war as did all the sermons of his brethren.”
“Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.”
“A woman, like a cross-eyed man, looks one way, but goes another--hence her mysteriousness.”
“No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost interest in hair-restorers.”
“Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.”
“If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's.”
“A sin is nothing but a deordination of reason, but that is enough.”