Quotes by Austin O'Malley

If you keep your mouth shut, you will never put your foot in it.

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.

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

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

Ugliness is a point of view: an ulcer is wonderful to a pathologist.

Truth lives in the cellar; error on the doorstep.

An Englishman thinks, seated; a Frenchman, standing; an American, pacing; an Irishman, afterward.

Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.

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

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