O. Henry Quotes

Straight between them ran the pathway, Never grew the grass upon it

Think of your woods and orchards without birds!Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beamsAs in an idiot's brain remembered wordsHang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams!

What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

It is so easy and effortless for Christians to just join a church and follow its leadership and practices without seeking the Lord for personal discernment.

One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar.

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human race

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

Always cherish the gift of reading.

It is the business of a virtuous clergy to censure vice in every appearance of it.

Education is liberation, knowledge is power.

For the ancient Greeks, the ultimate test of the educational system was the moral and political quality of the students that it produced

Traps!" he said. "Never in the world! Don't think it! Why, Gower is just a necessary olf bore. Nobody's supposed to know much about him--except instructors and their hapless students.

...education has always meant the initiation of the young into the social and spiritual inheritance of the community: in other words, education has meant the transmission of culture.

...the more widely we extend the range of education, the more necessary it is to provide some principle of cohesion to counterbalance the centrifugal tendencies of specialization and utilitarianism.

An Educated Woman is an Empowered Woman.

Cheating and lying aren't struggles, they're reasons to break up.

This is one of the marks of a truly safe person: they are confrontable.

The most basic boundary-setting word is “no.” It lets others know that we exist apart from them and that we are in control of ourselves.

In order to keep standing, one must first know how and why should they stand,

The wishbone will never replace the backbone

For once reality and his brains came into contact and the result was fatal.

[I]n any profession the highest order of work is achieved, not by fussy empirical demands for 'something to be done, ' but by patient study of the eternal laws.

A dream is a kind of nocturnal drama to which the only price of admission is falling asleep.

Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.

I have lots of favourites. That's the trouble with books. You can never choose your favorite. It changes depending on your mood.

There's a book for everyone, even if they don't think there is. A book that reaches in and grabs your soul.

Books are more precious than jewels. She truly believed this. What did a diamond bring you? A momentary flash of brilliance. A diamond scintillated for second a book could scintillate forever.

A town without a book shop was a town without a heart

When I read a novel my imagination starts off at a gallop and leaves the narrator hidden in a cloud of dust I have to come jogging twenty miles back to the denouement.

Because when you’re really scared to do something … do it right away.

Fear is Torment. The one who fears is not build to LOVE. The one who loves is made free off fear. The perfect love ousts all fear.

That’s it. Keep that edge. Fight like there’s no tomorrow.

A person's disposition should serve as a narrative of their lives not the pigmentation of their skin.

It is better to have someone that likes you and makes you happy than to have someone that loves you and makes you unhappy.

True love is about appreciating each other unconditionally regardless of our title or position.

In life, we are constantly growing.There are no true adults because our life experiences and sometimes unfortunate conditions show us that constant growth is part of the human story.

...all the horrors of war are soon forgotten in the pomp and circumstance of show and parade.

You help us, they’ll lock you up for the rest of your life.

With all the god-awful suffering in this war, I suppose somebody ought to be enjoying it.

Your people sell the weapons. My people use them.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Give me liberty or give me d

People are free to find out the best and the worst of me!

A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself

I think if Jeremy Corbyn got a cloak, he'd make a very good Gandalf.

After all, there was something rather pleasant in knowing that you were misunderstood. It made you feel different from everyone else.

The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.

Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.

Politicians are like dogs... Their life expectancy is too short for a commitment to be bearable

Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of them. Any other course would be injustice as well as bad policy