O. Henry Quotes

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.

You shouldn’t say I can’t until you’ve tried.

If you live in an atmosphere of luxury, luxury is yours whether your money pays for it, or another's.

We must kill the savage to save the man.

You can never have enough trophies. If there were ten to be won a year I'd want to win them all! That's not being greedy, it's just a natural thing.

I take the ball, I go wide, I cross, I shoot, but when the moment beckons, I am ready to make the difference.

People always see the goals, and for me, strikers are not only about scoring goals.

After a year's research, one realizes that it could have been done in a week.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Money is like an arm or leg - use it or lose it.

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.

My dad always taught me to never be satisfied, to want more and know that what is done is done.

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.

I always took quite seriously the things that Chuck D. of Public Enemy had to say. He's always been someone I've learned quite a bit from and someone I pay a great deal of attention to.

Love is not getting, but giving; It is goodness, and honor, and peace and pure living.

I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.

When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.

It is only when we are aware of the earth and of the earth as poetry that we truly live.

When you knock, ask to see God — none of the servants.

The prime occupational hazard of a manager is superficiality.

Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.

Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

Most of the time, strategies should not be formulating strategy at all; they should be getting on with implementing strategies they already have.

Birds never sing in caves.

If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it.

It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

Whales who come up and spout off get harpooned.

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

The rich will always betray the poor.

Why is it that when we talk to God, it's called 'prayer,' but when God speaks to us, it's called schizophrenia?

History doesn't mean dates and wars and textbooks to me; it means the unconquerable pioneer spirit of man.

Show me who makes a profit from war, and I'll show you how to stop the war.

Renew thyself completely each day.

God is always at work around you.

You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.

It is better to burn the candle at both ends, and in the middle, too, than to put it away in the closet and let the mice eat it.

He that would look with contempt on the pursuits of the farmer, is not worthy the name of a man.

"Play it as it lies" is one of the fundamental dictates of golf

A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one can’t see--that’s my idea of happiness.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.