Top 180 Austin O'Malley Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Those who deserve love the least need it the most.”

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2. “Wisdom grows in quiet places.”

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3. “You can’t change the world But you can change the facts And when you change the facts You change points of view If you change points of view You may change a vote And when you change a vote You may change the world.”

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4. “Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.”

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5. “If you learn from a loss you have not lost.”

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6. “Better a bald head than none at all.”

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7. “If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.”

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8. “The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.”

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9. “Some liars are so expert they deceive themselves.”

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

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11. “Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower’s hand.”

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12. “Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.”

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13. “If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.”

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14. “The swing of art is circular, from form to formalism, from formalism to formlessness, from formlessness to form again.”

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15. “In levying taxes and in shearing sheep, it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.”

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16. “Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.”

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17. “Memory is a crazy woman who hoards colored rags and throws away food.”

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18. “Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.”

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19. “They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.”

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20. “It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie...”

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21. “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.”

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22. “The Devil is not afraid to sit on an altar.”

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23. “The living have their eyes opened by closing the eyes of the dead.”

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24. “Charity that is always beginning at home stays there.”

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25. “God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.”

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26. “The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.”

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27. “The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.”

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28. “If the devil went about doing a tenth of what he is accused of doing he would be poor from paying the blacksmith for ox-shoes for his hooves.”

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29. “The reason we constantly discover new truth in Shakespeare is that his complete understanding of the particular includes the universal.”

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30. “We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it.”

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31. “Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.”

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32. “When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.”

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33. “The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.”

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34. “Persecution is as necessary to religion as pruning to an orchard.”

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35. “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.”

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36. “The only thing in the world we really possess is our knowledge of the truth.”

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37. “Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.”

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38. “A book is like a money-changer: it pays you back in another form what you brint to it.”

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39. “A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.”

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

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41. “Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.”

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42. “Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy.”

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43. “Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.”

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44. “Cunning is a short blanket – if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.”

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45. “Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.”

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46. “Law is the rudder of the ship of state.”

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47. “Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.”

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48. “Childhood has no necessary connection with age.”

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49. “The perjurer’s mother told white lies.”

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50. “Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud.”

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