O. Henry Quotes
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[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.
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What else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
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Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
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Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.
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A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
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If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, called New York.
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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.