Top 180 Austin O'Malley Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Truth lives in the cellar, error on the doorstep.”

— Austin O'Malley

102. “Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.”

— Austin O'Malley

103. “If you handle truth carelessly, it will cut your fingers.”

— Austin O'Malley

104. “The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.”

— Austin O'Malley

105. “Music is another lady that talks charmingly and says nothing.”

— Austin O'Malley

106. “The modern king has become a vermiform appendix: useless when quiet; when obtrusive, in danger of removal.”

— Austin O'Malley

107. “Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.”

— Austin O'Malley

108. “You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.”

— Austin O'Malley

109. “Worry is half impatience and half ignorance.”

— Austin O'Malley

110. “The half-baked sermon causes spiritual indigestion.”

— Austin O'Malley

111. “Patience is the analogue of God’s serenity.”

— Austin O'Malley

112. “Humor wades across a brook, wit jumps over it.”

— Austin O'Malley

113. “A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.”

— Austin O'Malley

114. “No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost interest in hair-restorers.”

— Austin O'Malley

115. “Civilization sails prettily like a child’s rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.”

— Austin O'Malley

116. “You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.”

— Austin O'Malley

117. “Truth as philosophy is a gas; as art, it is visible steam.”

— Austin O'Malley

118. “You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.”

— Austin O'Malley

119. “There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word “don’t!””

— Austin O'Malley

120. “Each man’s soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.”

— Austin O'Malley

121. “Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.”

— Austin O'Malley

122. “Love dwindles by pairing.”

— Austin O'Malley

123. “Treat kindly every miserable truth that knocks begging at your door, otherwise you will some day fail to recognize Truth Himself when He comes in rags.”

— Austin O'Malley

124. “Friends made fast seldom remain fast.”

— Austin O'Malley

125. “You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.”

— Austin O'Malley

126. “Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food.”

— Austin O'Malley

127. “Nations die first in the big cities.”

— Austin O'Malley

128. “A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.”

— Austin O'Malley

129. “The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.”

— Austin O'Malley

130. “Shame is the turnkey that keeps our evil desires in jail.”

— Austin O'Malley

131. “If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.”

— Austin O'Malley

132. “There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.”

— Austin O'Malley

133. “Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger’s shop, and as rusty.”

— Austin O'Malley

134. “The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.”

— Austin O'Malley

135. “Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.”

— Austin O'Malley

136. “Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.”

— Austin O'Malley

137. “An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.”

— Austin O'Malley

138. “No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.”

— Austin O'Malley

139. “Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.”

— Austin O'Malley

140. “If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.”

— Austin O'Malley

141. “You cannot gather much truth by searching the fields; you must sink shafts.”

— Austin O'Malley

142. “A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.”

— Austin O'Malley

143. “Humility is pride in God.”

— Austin O'Malley

144. “The perfection of art is to conceal the sources.”

— Austin O'Malley

145. “Truth and eggs are useful only while they are fresh.”

— Austin O'Malley

146. “Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.”

— Austin O'Malley

147. “Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.”

— Austin O'Malley

148. “After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.”

— Austin O'Malley

149. “A woman, like a cross-eyed man, looks one way, but goes another – hence her mysteriousness.”

— Austin O'Malley

150. “Civilization is the world with its leg asleep.”

— Austin O'Malley