250 Quotes by Austin O'Malley

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

We smile at the women who are eagerly following the fashions in dress whilst we are as eagerly following the fashions in thought.

Laws are made by the old, exceptions by the young.

The three most important events of human life are equally devoid of reason: birth, marriage and death.

Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

The bigger the dam of patience, the worse the flood when the dam breaks.

Patience is the analogue of God's serenity.

Patience has tender feet.

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