O. Henry Quotes

If I set out to sculpt a standing man and it becomes a lying woman, I know I am making art.

If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to have a chicken in the pot every Sunday.

A tap-in is a putt that is short enough to be missed one-handed.

The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors.

A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security.

If you've got nothing else, passion will get you through.

Blessed are they who know how to shine on one's gloom with their cheer.

The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.

I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

The more you leave out, the more you highlight what you leave in.

It is better, I think, to begin easily and get your running to be smooth and relaxed and then to go faster and faster.

We each have a sixth sense that is attuned to the oneness dimension in life, providing a means for us to guide our lives in accord with our ideas.

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

There's night and day, brother, both sweet things; sun, moon, and stars, brother, all sweet things; there's likewise a wind on the heath. Life is very sweet, brother; who would wish to die?

Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault.

To be loved by God is the highest relationship, the highest achievement, and the highest position in life.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

To celebrate the heart of Christmas is to forget ourselves in the service of others.

The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.

Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.

All good things are wild and free.

Live up to the best that is in you: Live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves.

Peace is such a precious jewel that I would give anything for it but truth.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your dinner

Nothing is really lost by a life of sacrifice; everything is lost by failure to obey God's call.

All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one.

Let us sing even when we do not feel like it, for in this way we give wings to heavy feet and turn weariness into strength.

I think then I may safely conclude and I firmly believe that American slavery is not only not a sin but especially commanded by God through Moses and approved by Christ through His Apostles.

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

If someone is so fearful that, that they're going to start using their weapons to protect their rights, it makes me very nervous that these people have these weapons at all!

Life is something that everyone should try at least once.

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?

The longest hill must end in a valley.

Place the contents of the Chess box in a hat, shake them up vigorously, pour them on the board from a height of two feet, and you get the style of Steinitz

Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on.

There is nowhere in the world where sleep is so deep as in the libraries of the House of Commons.

It is better to fall short of a high mark than to reach a low one.

Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

Rock became an incredible commercial success, people just became bored with serious music, and it was forgotten.

There has never been anything worth obtaining without grief, or suffering, and disappointment.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

find your eternity in each moment

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.