O. Henry Quotes
The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor
There is no more certain way to deter employment than to harass and penalize employers.
Inflation makes the extension of socialism possible by providing the financial chaos in which it flourishes. The fact is that socialism and inflation are cause and effect, they feed on each other!
Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.
There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man.
I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
The scarcity of the music not only makes the music itself enjoyable but it also gives the collector a strange sense of superiority.
To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it.
How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!
I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.
The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart.
We do not make changes for the sake of making them, but we never fail to make a change when once it is demonstrated that the new way is better than the old way.
Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.
I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.
Of all the things that man has made, no is so full of interest and charm, none possesses so distinct a life and character of its own, as a ship.
Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself
Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race.
This company doesn't pay anybody. Only customers can do that. The company merely handles the money.
The faculty of art is to change events; the faculty of science is to foresee them. The phenomena with which we deal are controlled by art; they are predicted by science.
Business must be run at a profit, else it will die. But when anyone tries to run a business solely for profit, then also the business must die, for it no longer has a reason for existence.
May Christ be our joy, our confidence, our all. May we daily be made more like to Him, and more devoted to His service.
Those that have so much power over others as to be able to oppress them have seldom so much over themselves as not to oppress.
Faith has played a major role in my life. Whenever I feel an obstacle is too great, I can always go to God in prayer and He'll help me through it.
When a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
Children are the keys of Paradise. They alone are good and wise, because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer.
When I go home, sometimes, even when I had an amazing game, I always think about what I missed.
But, at the moment, when I step on the pitch, when I have the ball I know it's mine. It's just a feeling.