O. Henry Quotes

Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining, Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day, Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining, Buds that open only to decay.

Why should antitrust laws be used to block mergers that the market, by the existence of willing buyers and sellers, shows to be desirable?

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

Praise God even when you don't understand what He is doing.

Christ is a substitute for everything, but nothing is a substitute for Christ.

Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start.

Home should be the center of joy, equatorial and tropical.

Accept nothing nearly right or good enough

It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

Decisiveness is often the art of timely cruelty.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

Gratitude is a vaccine, an antitoxin, and an antiseptic.

Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish.

Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

When there is love in the heart, there are rainbows in the eyes, which cover every black cloud with gorgeous hues.

The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Through woods and mountain passes The winds, like anthems, roll.

You had better all die - die immediately, than live as slaves and entail your wretchedness upon your posterity.

In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.

No coffee can be good in the mouth that does not first send a sweet offering of odor to the nostrils.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.

I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

I am an anarchist! Wherefore I will not rule and also ruled I will not be.

If I'd listened to customers, I'd have given them a faster horse.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling

Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?

Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do.

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama.

Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.

All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances.

Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?

When the chemist makes gloves, he usually cannot help making them in pairs for both hands.

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest.

Emulation embalms the dead; envy, the vampire, blasts the living.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

We have to admit that, notwithstanding all the efforts in which governments and peoples have participated, no corresponding change has been wrought in the aspect of the world's armaments.

Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Americans will eat garbage provided you sprinkle it liberally with ketchup.

One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.

How good it is to be well-fed, healthy, and kind all at the same time.