Top 180 Austin O'Malley Quotes (2025 Update)
Page 4 of 4

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

— Austin O'Malley

152. “Patience has tender feet.”

— Austin O'Malley

153. “The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist’s own character, if he has one.”

— Austin O'Malley

154. “Art is awkward until technique has become an unconscious habit.”

— Austin O'Malley

155. “Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.”

— Austin O'Malley

156. “All things come to him who waits – even justice.”

— Austin O'Malley

157. “Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another.”

— Austin O'Malley

158. “Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.”

— Austin O'Malley

159. “Charity is the note that resolves the discord.”

— Austin O'Malley

160. “Those who have suffered are best able to help those who are suffering.”

— Austin O'Malley

161. “Public opinion is the pennant on a nation’s mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.”

— Austin O'Malley

162. “Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.”

— Austin O'Malley

163. “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.”

— Austin O'Malley

164. “Laws are made by the old, exceptions by the young.”

— Austin O'Malley

165. “The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.”

— Austin O'Malley

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

— Austin O'Malley

167. “Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.”

— Austin O'Malley

168. “There are ten church-members by inheritance for one by conviction.”

— Austin O'Malley

169. “A worship of truth can be idolatry if the truth is small enough.”

— Austin O'Malley

170. “A youth’s knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.”

— Austin O'Malley

171. “Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.”

— Austin O'Malley

172. “Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.”

— Austin O'Malley

173. “Art is one of man’s few serious activities.”

— Austin O'Malley

174. “There are more gluttons than drunkards in hell.”

— Austin O'Malley

175. “That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.”

— Austin O'Malley

176. “The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.”

— Austin O'Malley

177. “It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.”

— Austin O'Malley

178. “The most dangerous savages live in cities.”

— Austin O'Malley

179. “Sorrow may be a good thing for a woman’s heart, but it is a poor cosmetic for her face.”

— Austin O'Malley

180. “There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.”

— Austin O'Malley

181. “If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.”

— Austin O'Malley

182. “Death is an antidote for this life, and it makes another more stable form of life which is insoluble in everything.”

— Austin O'Malley

183. “Art knows, life applies knowledge; art feels, life acts.”

— Austin O'Malley

184. “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.”

— Austin O'Malley

185. “Most mysteries are soluble in time.”

— Austin O'Malley

186. “The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.”

— Austin O'Malley

187. “If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon’s.”

— Austin O'Malley

188. “A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher’s circus.”

— Austin O'Malley

189. “The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul.”

— Austin O'Malley

190. “You can buy life only with life.”

— Austin O'Malley

191. “We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.”

— Austin O'Malley

192. “Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.”

— Austin O'Malley

193. “If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.”

— Austin O'Malley

194. “Life is being, not having.”

— Austin O'Malley

195. “Every wheatfield of human thought after a while becomes filled with cockle; then the husbandmen destroy the grain with the cockle and plant anew.”

— Austin O'Malley

196. “That art is best which suggests most.”

— Austin O'Malley

197. “Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.”

— Austin O'Malley