Austin O'Malley
Austin O'Malley
life life-is
Life is being, not having.
life swim hard
You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.
house coats literature
Originality in literature is only a new coat of paint on an old house.
passing-away deeds literature
There is a form of literature that is a deed, and a form that is only talk, and the latter passes away like a conversation.
power answers speech
Power should answer by action, not by speech.
luck doe saint
That the saints were usually in ill luck does not canonize you.
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.