O. Henry Quotes
Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.
And I don't watch cricket. How can you like a game that requires you to take four days off work to follow a Test?
The fact is that some people are better than others - smarter, harder working, more learned, more productive, harder to replace.
The dominant mood of contemporary American culture is the self-celebration of the peasantry.
The rich man can afford to be happy and wise; the poor man is wiser still, for he understands sadness.
Every character has an inward spring; let Christ be that spring. Every action has a keynote; let Christ be that note, to which your whole life is attuned.
Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.
Perpetual spring, the flare of adventure in the blood, the impulse of men who packed Virgil with their bean-bags on the overland journey, conspired~ to make San Francisco a city of artists.
In living, as in art, rules are drawn from practice; not the other way around.
"As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.
I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.
Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.
Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.
You aren't alive if you aren't in need.
There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.
Grief wraps around people, takes them to a place they would not go otherwise.
..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.
Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.
The greatest need of the contemporary international system is an agreed concept of order.
Revolutionaries are rarely motivated primarily by material considerations-though the illusion that they are persists in the West.
What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.
Of all studies, the one he would rather have avoided was that of his own mind. He knew no tragedy so heartrending as introspection.
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic, chiefly as an almost insane excitement at first, and a worse reaction afterwards.
No man can instruct more than half-a-dozen students at once. The whole problem of education is one of its cost in money.
A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly
In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.
As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.
My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can't myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.
The best date movies give you something to talk about. A movie that's a downer is a great way to find out about someone.
A boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.