Austin O'Malley Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Austin O'Malley
Austin O'Malley Famous Quotes & Sayings
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A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.
The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.
Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.
Many a man wins glory for prudence by seeking advice, then seeking advice as to what advice would be best to take, and finally following appetite.
Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.
We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.
That a mouse of scandal whisks its foolish tail across the church's floor is not sufficient cause for clamorous leaping out of its windows.
The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.
The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.
A youth's knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.
The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.
Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.
The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.
The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.
If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.
A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.
If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.
Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.