O. Henry Quotes

In just about every area of society, there's nothing more important than ethics.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

My version of Superman is essentially of a guy who has spent his whole life alone.

Every dog is a lion at home.

He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of reticence — of talking without meaning — is never effaced.

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.

Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

Some people think they can; some think they can't. They are probably both right.

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.

It is much better to be drawn by the joys of heaven, than driven by the sorrows of earth.

Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and darkened room, two angels issued, where but one went in.

O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

If you control the food, you control a nation. If you control the energy, you control a region. If you control the money, you control the world.

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.

There's no such thing as no chance.

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance.

Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.

When I die, I want to die in a Utopia that I have helped to build.

Whether we think we can or cannot, we are right.

Wear it if it clashes.

If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink: Good wine - a friend - or being dry - Or lest we should be by and by - Or any other reason why.

Those who work much do not work hard.

The farther we get away from the land, the greater our insecurity.

Now the thing is not to get into unnecessary quarrels by talking too much and not to indicate any weakness by talking too much; let our actions speak for themselves.

We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.

The only deadly sin I know is cynicism.

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

He who would really benefit mankind must reach them through their work.

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

I adopted the theory of reincarnation when I was 26. Genius is experience. Some think to seem that it is a gift or talent, but it is the fruit of long experience in many lives

Those who do the most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand the least.

A scatterbrain is one who never has an unspoken thought.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

Some people believe they are winners, others believe they are losers. And they are both right.

I pray that wherever we are and whatever duties we have in the priesthood of God, we will be united in the cause to bring the gospel to all the world.

Any decision you make isn't worth a tinkers damn until you have formed the habit of making and keeping it.

The Model T blazed the way for the motor industry & started the movement for good roads everywhere. It is still the pioneer car in many parts of the world which are just beginning to be motorized.

What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn.

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

It is possible to invent a house still more convenient and luxurious than we have...but shall we always study to obtain more of these things, and not sometimes to be content with less?