Austin O'Malley
Austin O'Malley
book doors circus
A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.
mother liars lying
The perjurer's mother told white lies.
evil world mixtures
The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.
giving advice useless
It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.
dog men advice
Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.
cutting acquaintance ifs
If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.
men animal soul
Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.
eye perfect criticism
The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.
moving men earth
Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.
happiness water gold
Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.
dollars idealism ideals
You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.
men ideas fire
The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.
fire gains youth
We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.
men insanity insane
A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.