Austin O'Malley

“A gossip is a person who creates the smoke in which other people assume there's a fire.”

“An ounce of enterprise is worth a pound of privilege.”

“A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well.”

“Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships.”

“It is a characteristic of a weak man to make a show of his strength.”

“Art is the whisper of history, heard above the noise of time.”

“Life is a verb, not a noun.”

“Some people are so painfully good that they would rather be right than pleasant.”

“A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.”

“A habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.”

“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”

“The man who can't be angry is a fool, but the man who won't be angry is a wise man.”

“Imagination is the eye of the soul.”

“Read much, but not many books.”

“Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day, like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.”

“Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.”

“A contented man is one who enjoys the scenery along the detours.”

“An epigram is a half-truth so stated as to irritate the person who believes the other half.”