O. Henry Quotes

Death is nothing at all; it does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.

Ugliness corrupts not only the eyes, but also the heart and mind.

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page

We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other.

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself.

Heaven often seems distant and unknown, but if He who made the road... is our guide, we need not fear to lose the way.

The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Almost any garden, if you see it at just the right moment, can be confused with paradise.

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

Wolves are not our brothers; they are not our subordinates, either. They are another nation, caught up just like us in the complex web of time and life.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

Gentlemen don't read each other's mail.

True religion is a union of God with the soul, a real participation of the divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the soul, or in the apostle's phrase, it is Christ formed in us.

Missions is God finding those whose hearts are right with Him and placing them where they can make a difference for His kingdom

It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won...In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there.

Hours fly, Flowers die: New days, New ways: Pass by! Love stays.

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

Greatest thing in life is experience. Even mistakes have value.

There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us.

What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?

There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice.

It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.

Man takes a great deal of pains to heap up riches, and they are but like heaps of manure in the furrows of the field, good for nothing unless they be spread.

Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore is called the staff of Life.

East is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

In football you always get judged on your last game. Whoever you are, or how amazing you are, it's the last game that everyone has seen.

The eternal difference between right and wrong does not fluctuate, it is immutable.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

I want every peasant to have a chicken in his pot on Sundays.

What unites Oklahomans today is what has always united us: Our unshakable faith. Our love of family and compassion for others. The unlimited promise of a hopeful future.

I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.

if you are going to be pushed you had better jump

Justice is sweet and musical; but injustice is harsh and discordant.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.

My dream is that people will come to view eating an animal as cannibalism.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

Creation is not taking place now, so far as can be observed. Therefore, it was accomplished sometime in the past, if at all, and thus is inaccessible to the scientific method.

Baking is my business, and it will always come first.

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

If there's one thing that we're very good at as humans, it's remembering the bad stuff. For some reason, it's always the pain that gets you.