Austin OMalley Quotes - Page 8

If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues into a single beam, you get charity.

Charity that is always beginning at home stays there.

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

Charity is the note that resolves the discord.

If all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat.

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

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.

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

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

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

Talent is a tenant in the house owned by genius.

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

Well begun is not only half done, but often fully cooked.

There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.

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

You can buy life only with life.

It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead.

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

We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.

Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside.

Love dwindles by pairing.

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

It is yesterday that makes tomorrow so sad.

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

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