Austin O'Malley Quotations | Page 3

If you snub Conscience a few times she will cut your acquaintance.

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

The perfect critic is one ... that sees with the eyes of posterity.

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

Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.

You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.

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

We must be laid like a brand in the fire ... if we would gain immortal youth.

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

Justice and the facade of a temple are seen best from the outside.