O. Henry Quotes

For reasons which many persons thought ridiculous, Mrs. Lightfoot Lee decided to pass the winter in Washington.

The new American, like the new European, was the servant of the powerhouse, as the European of the twelfth century was the servant of the Church.

Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.

In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.

If I grapple with sin in my own strength, the devil knows he may go to sleep.

By nature, man is lazy, working only under compulsion; and when he is strong we will always live, as far as he can, upon the labor or the property of the weak.

Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.

His brothers were the type; he was the variation.

American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless.

I hate liberality - nine times out of ten it is cowardice, and the tenth time lack of principle.

we grant evil freewill (or freewill to evil) is remaining in all natural men: we believe that freewill to good, is from grace and regeneration.

The first, the middle and the last thing to do is to pray.

The Lord will give His righteous servants opportunities to be bold as lions when they speak in His name and as witnesses in His priesthood.

It is possible to rise to the lofty standard set by the Lord for priesthood holders in making decisions in quorums. It is possible when there is great faith and love and the absence of contention.

Every child of Heavenly Father born in the world is given at birth, as a free gift, the Light of Christ.

We need not just one flash of light and comfort, but we need the continuing blessing of communication with God.

When you choose whether to make or keep a covenant with God, you choose whether you will leave an inheritance of hope to those who might follow your example.

To be loved by God is the highest relationship.

God's commands are designed to guide you to life's very best.

Ultimately, leadership is more about 'being' than 'doing.'

Our task is to relate our lives to God, and let Him work through us.

What an incredible witness it is to a lost and fearful society when the Christian acts like a child of God, living under the loving sovereignty of the Heavenly Father.

History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo? Would that change what I had for breakfast?

Economics is primarily useful, both to the student and to the political leader, as a prophylactic against popular fallacies.

I didn't read comics as a kid - though, obviously, I've read a lot since.

My mother works in a bank and my dad is the head of my management team and also works in finance.

I didn't see a lot of comic books growing up.

Like piles of dry wood with red-hot coals underneath.

I'm not an expert in the sociological realities of all the pastors in the world, but I would say that there are some very, very positive things about the state of integrity in church leaders.

It was an old, old, old, old lady, And a boy who was half-past three; And the way they played together Was beautiful to see.

What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high.

I wasn't one of those people who went to see a play and said, 'I want to be an actor.' I fell into it.

It is important to gain knowledge, yes, but any advantage we will have in the eternal life to come will be a knowledge, I am sure, of those saving principles upon which our eternal life will depend.

In an unjust society the only place for a just man is prison.

I was not born to be forced.

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.

We do not live by justice, but by grace.

Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.

We should treat our minds, that is, ourselves, as innocent and ingenuous children, whose guardians we are, and be careful what objects and what subjects we thrust on their attention.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

Knowledge is to be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another's experience only by his own.

When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.

Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

Law never made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it, even the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.