O. Henry Quotes
Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.
But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time’s fool, And Time, that takes survey of all the world, Must have a stop.
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself-and be lenient to everybody else.
O for a Muse of fire, that would ascendThe brightest heaven of invention!
Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
It is not enough to be busy so are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage.
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!
Sound drums and trumpets! Farewell sour annoy! For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them
In my opinion, the sun was made to light worthier toil than this.
What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.
...is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely?
Well married, a man is winged—ill-matched, he is shackled.
Whether you believe you can or you believe you can't, you are correct.
I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things.
I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard
Faith without action is delusion. Faith does not wait for miracles but produces them. If you think you can or if you think you can't, you are right.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
Everything you do makes my body scream with loneliness. When I see you, the room swallows me. I find myself at the bottom of the pool.
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people then i feel on my owm.
It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.
See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.
