When you are dealing with a child, keep all your wits about you, and sit on the floor.
— Austin O'Malley
A hole is nothing at all, but you can break your neck in it.
Show me a genuine case of platonic friendship, and I shall show you two old or homely faces.
Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.
The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them.
God shows his contempt for wealth by the kind of person he selects to receive it.
If you keep your mouth shut you will never put your foot in it.
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.
The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
When walking through the 'valley of shadows,' remember, a shadow is cast by a Light.
Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers.
