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.
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.
cat ignorant enough
If you are ignorant enough, you can walk like a cat on the slippery roof-ridge of danger.
death silence may
And death, that sits in marble silence cold, Will furnish hope to those who may behold The meaning in the everlasting change Of all that dies, returning, wondrous strange.
gun envy locks
Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.