250 Quotes by Austin O'Malley

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation’s mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger’s shop, and as rusty.

Civilization sails prettily like a child’s rubber balloon until it hits a sharp object; then it is likely to collapse like the balloon.

A youth’s knowledge is like a cheap shotgun-likely to do as much damage to the owner as to the game.

The only original part in a work of art is the infusion of the artist’s own character, if he has one.

The ideal historian goes to the mouth of the tomb, cries: “Lazarus, come forth!” and sets him that was dead for ages, blinking and passionate, in the sun.

If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon’s.

There is more in the education of children than the everlasting iteration of the word “don’t!”

You can’t change the world But you can change the facts And when you change the facts You change points of view If you change points of view You may change a vote And when you change a vote You may change the world.