O. Henry Quotes

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

It is a bitter thought to an avaricious spirit that by and by all these accumulations must be left behind. We can only carry away from this world the flavor of our good or evil deeds.

Our sweetest experiences of affection are meant to be suggestions of that realm which is the home of the heart.

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.

If Christ is not divine, every impulse of the Christian world falls to a lower octave, and light and love and hope decline.

The newspaper is a greater treasure to the people than uncounted millions of gold.

The obvious is better than obvious avoidance of it.

In a still photograph you basically have two variables, where you stand and when you press the shutter. That's all you have.

[The photographer's task] is to describe the existing light... Chances are, if you believe the light, you're going to believe that the things photographed existed in the world.

Some of my best work is done when I'm half asleep.

Regeneration can come only through a change of heart in the individual.

If salt ocean is the Great Mother from whom all life has sprung, fresh water is the Nurse entrusted to nourish life within her wanderings and around her wave-lapped margins.

Wes Craven is a wonderful friend, and we had a really good time together.

I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff, at my best value.

Unwrapping occurs when the "solution" is explicitly built into the program from the start.

Egotism is true modesty. In religious enquiry each of us can speak only for himself.

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.

The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

In music, all hearts are revealed to us.

My voice was pretty good almost all through Othello. Alexander Technique really helped my posture and focus.

... the more you know about life, the more you get out of it.

The service of sin is perfect slavery.

You may as soon find a living man who does not breathe, as a living Christian who does not pray.

The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.

It is better to take time to consider before than to find time to repent after.

Christ is our temple, in whom by faith all believers meet.

Nothing can make a man truly great but being truly good, and partaking of God's holiness.

The provisions of Christ's gospel appear mean and scanty to the world, yet they satisfy all that feed on him in their hearts by faith with thanksgiving.

Prayer is the midwife of mercy, that helps to bring it forth.

The anger of a meek man is like fire struck out of steel, hard to be got out, and when it is, soon gone.

Riches are a blessing or a curse to a man according as he has or has not a heart to make good use of them.

Suspicion is a Virtue, if in the interests of the good of the people.

The question before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery

I think my wife would take objection to any characterization of me as perfect.

The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.

There are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.

Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.

History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

When I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster...I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That's the story.

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.

Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!

As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair.

'Tis always morning somewhere in the world

With no companion but the constant Muse, Who sought me when I needed her ah, when Did I not need her, solitary else?

When you hire people that are smarter than you are, you prove you are smarter than they are.

No economy ever stands still.

But one thing you need to do in the game, is to adapt and adjust your game to what you have been asked to do and also to what your body is telling you to do.

When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do.