O. Henry Quotes
The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.
Disappointment always arrives before hope and the darkness of night comes before the dawn. Don't lose hope now because things will brighter with the new day.
If people like to see me with my shirt off, it's enormously flattering. But that doesn't mean I'm going to take my shirt off all the time.
I still don't have any crushes on actresses or models. It's always been one of those things with girlfriends. They say, "Who's on your list?" What do you call it, the Get Out of Jail Free card?
Our government is built upon the vote. But votes that are purchasable are quicksands, and a government built on them stands upon corruption and revolution.
There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.
In a hunting society, children play with bows and arrows. In an information society, children play with information
Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye.
You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter woods.
The extent to which two people in a relationship can bring up and resolve issues is a critical marker of the soundness of a relationship.
Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
In Ethiopia, the black people became Christians 1700 years ago, hundreds of years before Northern Europe turned to Christianity... And here, most of the saints are black.
Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
The natural response to evaluation is to feel judged. We have to mature to a place where we respond to it with gratitude, and love feedback.
Sin had no sooner come into the world than God came in grace seeking the sinner, and so from the first question, 'Adam, where art thou?' on to the incarnation, God has been speaking to man.
The government has nothing to give to anybody that it doesn't first take from someone else.
To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice.
Fascism is a worldwide disease. Its greatest threat to the United States will come after the war, either via Latin America or within the United States itself.
Every friend to the liberty of his country is bound to reflect, and step forward to prevent the dreadful consequences which shall result from a government of events.
The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.
What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while, So pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, And smile, smile, smile.
The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he.
A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.