O. Henry Quotes
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Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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Bolivar cannot carry double.
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The Venturer is one who keeps his eye on the hedgerows and wayside groves and meadows while he travels the road to Fortune.
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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
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East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.
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A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
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Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
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Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
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There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
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The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I hated Kerner, and one day I met him and we became friends. He was young and gloriously melancholy because his spirits were so high and life had so much in store for him. Yes, he was almost riotously sad. That was his youth. When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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I never have time to read now. I did all my reading before I was twenty.
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It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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In time truth and science and nature will adapt themselves to art. Things will happen logically, and the villain be discomfited instead of being elected to the board of directors. But in the meantime fiction must not only be divorced from fact, but must pay alimony and be awarded custody of the press despatches.
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The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.
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By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.