250 Quotes by Austin O'Malley

Patience is moral elasticity.

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

If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.

We are plated with piety, not alloyed with it.

Love is a boomerang that returns to the thrower's hand.

The most evident quality of human life is its loneliness.

You can buy life only with life.

Life is a bubble in a lake, that glitters for an instant, bursts, and leaves not even a blur on the water; it is the leap of a minnow, which sends a tiny ripple trembling for a few inches.

A man's life is like a well, not like a snake--it should be measured by its depth, not by its length.