O. Henry Quotes
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it in place of dust.
Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on 'Twas not given for thee alone Pass it on Let it travel down the years Let it wipe another's tears Til in Heaven the deed appears - Pass it on.
For as labor cannot produce without the use of land the denial of the equal right to use of land is necessarily the denial of the right of labor to its own produce.
Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter some of them in hell.
The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad like the season and infinite in wealth and depth of tone - but never hustled.
The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.
You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you really lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.
When the satisfaction or the security of another person becomes as significant to one as one's own satisfaction or security then the state of love exists.
Of all the girls that are so smart There's none like pretty Sally She is the darling of my heart And lives in our alley.
We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
His designs were strictly honourable as the phrase is: that is to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.
Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.
If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.
And 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.
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.
The real secret of how to use time is to pack it as you would a portmanteau filling up the small spaces with small things.
Happy the man and happy he alone He who can call today his own He who secure within can say "Tomorrow do thy worst For I have lived today."
Too slow for those who wait Too swift for those who fear Too long for those who grieve Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love time is not.
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room each believing himself in mortal peril from the other who he assumes to have perfect vision.
All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them but what is universal.
Politics as a practice whatever its professions has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.