Austin O'Malley
Austin O'Malley
life running beach
Our lives are waves that come up out of the ocean of eternity, break upon the beach of earth, and lapse back to the ocean of eternity. Some are sunlit, some run in storm and rain; one is a quiet ripple, another is a thunderous breaker; and once in many centuries comes a great tidal wave that sweeps over a continent; but all go back to the sea and lie equally level there.
iron liberty chains
Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.
mind lamps reason
Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.
men thinking liberty
Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.
vehement pairs reform
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.
prayer dark night
Some men pray only when the world is dark, as owls hoot at night.
car religion way
We use religion like a trolley-car--we ride on it only while it is going our way.
lasts matter shovels
No matter who you are, you will be put abed at last with a shovel.
form this-life antidote
Death is an antidote for this life, and it makes another more stable form of life which is insoluble in everything.
desire praying
When we pray for death we really desire a fuller life.
funny
Better a bald head than none at all.
night sky afterglow
When a great life sets it leaves an afterglow on the sky far into the night.
worry ireland-and-the-irish consciousness
An Irishman can be worried by the consciousness that there is nothing to worry about.
men two evil
Where there is a choice of two evils, most men take both.