O. Henry Quotes

Society prepares the crime, the criminal commits it.

Anybody body can be a Church goer, but there is a difference of "GOD" being in them then they being in the WORLD.

Our age has need of violence, " he writes. And he is violence.

Everyone in prison has an ideal of violence, murder. Beneath all relationships between prisoners is the ever-present fact of murder. It ultimately defines our relationship among ourselves.

Never diagnosed the enemy before.

It’s a lot cleaner when Command kills you on purpose . . . than when they do it by accident.

You can pray and fight at the same time, Corporal. Especially if you learn how before things get rough. It’s important to have a philosophy of life . . . and of death.

A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us

He was holding his breath so as not to inhale the odor of democracy.

Democratic ideas cannot exist without the public spheres that make them possible.

It is scarcely the same thing to put a man on the Moon as to put a bone in your nose.

Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.

I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.

Happiness at any price is no happiness at all.

When you deprive yourself of happiness, you deprive yourself your sense of being.

Happiness is a necessity. It’s not a thing money can buy but a feeling that comes from within.

Don’t let your mood or happiness be dictated by the judgement of others but stay true to that you believe in because you’re the architect of your own happiness.

Happiness is not just a smile on the face but a joy from within.

Happiness is not in the amount of money we make ……it is in the good things we do to better mankind.

Happiness is a journey that starts with you. If you can’t find it within you, it will be logically impossible for you to make others around you happy.

When you make a mistake, understand it not as a mistake but as a lesson. This however, is if and only if you have learned something from it.

A little reckless bravery may end up saving your life.

Let us understand, once for all, that the ethical progress of society depends, not on imitating the cosmic process, still less in running away from it, but in combating it.

A missionary deals with all the important people of the community, but he is never really one of them.

Five minutes ago is gone, never to be seen again. Five minutes from now, isn't here yet....What are you going to do with it?

Nothing is easier to achieve than full employment, once it is divorced from the goal of full production and taken as an end in itself

Success or Failure, there should always be a Drive to Keep on Creating.

The nearer the dawnthe darker the night.

The value of friendship is based on a solid underline friendship.

Friendship is not just about having fun, it’s about supporting each other in time of weakness.

It is better to have just one friend that adds value to your life than having a million friends that add no value to your life.

There's no Black, White, Asian, or Latinos. The only "RACE" is the "HUMAN-RACE".

I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the years

You should see the murderous stares I get on the street. Though I think that has less to do with seeing a man carrying a purse and more to do with paisley. Paisley makes everyone cranky.

The relief of opening one's hand and letting go was immense. But soon after, I tightened again. A desire for revenge, a strange revenge.

We must be present enough and receptive enough to “hear” with our whole being beyond just the words that are being spoken.

He read as much as his curiosity demanded - which is to say all

I heard the bells on Christmas DayTheir old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweetThe words repeatOf peace on earth, good-will to men!

Be wary of someone who has never failed, or seem to have no faults... Too good to be true usually is. Perfection hides something.

When a situation gets so bad that no solution seems possible there is left only murder and suicide, or both. These failing, one becomes a buffoon.

Sometimes people did this, closed their eyes for a few seconds and imagined it gave them insights into what it was like to be her. Only, at the end, they could still open their eyes and see.

Behold the day-break!I awaken you by sitting on your chest and purring in your face, I stir you with muscular paw-prods, I rouse you with toe-

You can never know where I am or what I am, But I am good company to you nonetheless, And really do regret I broke your ink

The noisy jay swoops by and reviles me, he complains of my meow and my malingering.I too am not a bit subdued, I too am uncontrollable, I sound my splenetic yowl over the roof of the h

Our differences need not divide us because even as we are unique and individual, we are also all one.

[T]hose who willed the means and wished the ends are not absolved from guilt by the refusal of reality to match their schemes.

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

If "RACE" becomes the norm, then harmony will not prevail.

Oh my eye Betty Martin! Aren't I glad it isn't me that's going to school! It looks just like a prison.