Austin O'Malley
Austin O'Malley
crush truth lying
It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie....
lying ability loses
Those who listen to lies lose the ability to hear the truth.
lying differences years
The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.
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.
eye heaven earth
If you keep your eyes so fixed on heaven that you never look at the earth, you will stumble into hell.
men animal soul
Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.
moving men earth
Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.
justice temples facade
Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside.
law ships rudders
Law is the rudder of the ship of state.
soul gold settling
Gold is so heavy it settles down upon the lowest souls.
friends made
Friends made fast seldom remain fast.
white blooming crowds
If all fools wore white hoods, any crowd would look like a field of blooming buckwheat.
feet over-you faces
Cunning is a short blanket--if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.