O. Henry Quotes
This organization (United Nations) is created to prevent you from going to hell. It isn't created to take you to heaven.
Keep your thoughts right for as you think so are you. Therefore think only those things that will make the world better and you unashamed.
Though we cannot by our prayers give God any information yet we must by our prayers give him honor.
We read of preaching the Word out of season but we do not read of praying out of season for that is never out of season.
It is good for us to keep some account of our prayers that we may not unsay them in our practice.
Let me burn out for God ... prayer is the great thing. Oh that I may be a man of prayer!
The century on which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.
Be still sad heart and cease repining Behind the clouds is the sun still shining Thy fate is the common fate of all Into each life some rain must fall Some days must be dark and dreary.
Every man has his own destiny the only imperative is to follow it to accept it no matter where it leads him.
The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy ... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime and departing leave behind us footprints on the sands of time.
Imitation can acquire pretty much everything but the power which created the thing imitated.
Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.
The man who looks for security even in the mind is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.
The man who gives me employment which I must have or suffer that man is my master let me call him what I will.
God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth That they might touch the hearts of men And bring them back to heaven again.
Sport is one area where no participant is worried about another's race religion or wealth: and where the only concern is 'Have you come to play?'
Came the Spring with all its splendor All its birds and all its blossoms All its flowers and leaves and grasses.
Silently one by one in the infinite meadows of heaven Blossomed the lovely stars the forget-me-nots of the angels.
As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn so change of studies a dull brain.
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 whom he assumes to have perfect vision.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people they think it's their fault.
Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste and amuses himself by applying it triumphantly wherever he travels.
To say the least a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.
