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Famous Austin O'Malley Quotes
“Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.”
“In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.”
“Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman's heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.”
“An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.”
“Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.”
“Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.”
“Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.”
“Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.”
“The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.”
“A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.”
“The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.”
“If you have forgotten how to be a child you cannot teach children.”
“Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.”
“A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.”
“There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word "don't!"”
“It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.”
“Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.”
“Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.”
“A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.”
“The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.”
“It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.”