Austin O'Malley Quotes

17 Sourced Quotes

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

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Physical science reads through its sense of touch like a blind man, and the supply of books in braille type on the spiritual life is very small.

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Surgery: by far the worst snob among the handicrafts.

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Only men of the strongest faith should become scientists, because scientists so readily fall into the evil and vulgar habit of Didymus - they must touch everything.

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Envy is a gun with a faulty breech-lock which flares back and burns the gunner.

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We use religion like a trolley-car—we ride on it only while it is going our way.

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A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

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

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Facts are carpet-tacks under the pneumatic tires of theory.

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Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.

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Most public speakers talk so badly that a sudden quotation from a poet appears in their babble like a lady in a slum.

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Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.

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The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.
Sometimes misattributed to Benito Mussolini

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

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Call it the Absolute, the Ideal, Perfection, Sanctity, Decency, or what you will, but strive toward it or you will smother in the morass.

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Never carry your shotgun or your knowledge at half-cock.

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In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.

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