Austin O'Malley
Austin O'Malley
church tails scandal
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.
god clothes evening
You are not obliged to put on evening clothes to meet God.
spring book april
Every April God rewrites the book of Genesis.
eye heaven earth
If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.
book doors circus
A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus.
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.
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.
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.