O. Henry Quotes

Into each life some rain must fall some days must be dark and dreary.

The world is not to be put in order the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

Almost any event will put on a new face when received with cheerful acceptance.

Acceptance makes any event put on a new face.

Let each look to himself and see what God wants of him and attend to this leaving all else alone.

Trust no future howe'er pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act - act in the living Present! Heart within and God o'erhead.

Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait.

How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. ... I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Be still sad heart and cease repining Behind the clouds the sun is shining Thy fate is the common fate of all Into each life some rain must fall - Some days must be dark and dreary.

If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.

Thou too sail on O Shipof State! Sail on O Union strong and great! Humanity with all its fears With all the hopes of future years Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

Ah to build to build! That is the noblest of all the arts.

We must grant the artist his subject his idea his donnee: Our criticisms apply only to what he makes of it.

Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And departing leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

Get as much experience as you can so that you're ready when luck works. That's the luck.

To persevere in one's duty and to be silent is the best answer to calumny.

Capital is a result of labor and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

The night shall be filled with music And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs And as silently steal away.

All things must change to something new to something strange.

To live is to change and to be perfect is to change often.

All things must change To something new to something strange.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng But in ourselves are triumph and defeat.

There was a little girl And she had a little curl Right in the middle of her forehead When she was good she was very very good When she was bad she was horrid.

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old familiar carols play And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth good-will to men!

The itch of disputing is the scab of the churches.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act accordingly to their beliefs.

If the poor man cannot always get meat the rich man cannot always digest it.

The only incorruptible thing about us.

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.

My advice to you if you should ever be in a hold up is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.

The bravest are the tenderest. The loving are the daring.

No one has yet computed how many imaginary triumphs are silently celebrated by people each year to keep up their courage.

Courage does not consist in calculation but in fighting against chances.

You had better be ready to change your mind when needed.

You had better be ready to change your mind when needed or your mind will change you.

A stiff attitude is one of the phenomena of rigor mortis.

There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.

Society prepares the crime the criminal commits it.

Every dew-drop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it.

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion on slender evidence.

Statistics are no substitute for judgement.

Thy fate is the common fate of all Into each life some rain must fall Some days must be dark and dreary.

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable ... we must be content to creep along the ground and can never soar.

Arrogance pedantry and dogmatism are the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.