Austin O'Malley Men Quotations

Some men, like a wet dog, sprinkle a shower of advice over you when you are least prepared for a bath.

Each man's soul is a menagerie where Conscience, the animal-tamer, lives with a collection of wild beasts.

Man and the earth move in orbits: what they did before, they will do again.

The collision of a great man with a great idea strikes fire in dry flax.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

Ordinarily when a man in difficulty turns to prayer, he has already tried every other means of escape.

Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.

No man can have a reasonable opinion of women until he has long lost interest in hair-restorers.

A woman, like a cross-eyed man, looks one way, but goes another--hence her mysteriousness.

You cannot knock a man down who will not stand up, nor argue with a skeptic.

The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage.

They often say woman cannot keep a secret, but every woman in the world, like every man, has a hundred secrets in her own soul which she hides from even herself. The more respectable she is, the more certain it is the secrets exist.

The habits of a young man are, like his coat, removable; the habits of an old man are like the drapery of a statue.

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.

Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.

Most reformers, like a pair of trousers on a windy clothesline, go through a vast deal of vehement motion, but stay in the same place.

Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.

After thirty-five a man begins to have thoughts about women; before that he has feelings.

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.

The American government is a rule of the people, by the people, for the bosses.

Some men are like a clock on the roof; they are useful only to the neighbors.

Art is one of man's few serious activities.

A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.

A rose gets its color and fragrance from the root, and man his virtue from his childhood.

Some men are like a church-organ -- you can play on them for a lifetime and always find new harmonies; others are like a music-box -- they have four or five thin jingles.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

The weaker the man in authority... the stronger his insistence that all his privileges be acknowledged.