O. Henry Quotes
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.
O sir, we should have fine times, indeed, if, to punish tyrants, it were only sufficient to assemble the people! Your arms, wherewith you could defend yourselves, are gone.
In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Publishing is a business, but journalism never was and is not essentially a business. Nor is it a profession.
But this I know. Those who seek Him will do well to look among the poor and the lowly, the sorrowful and the oppressed.
He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals
Not prayer without faith, nor faith without prayer, but prayer in faith, is the cost of spiritual gifts and graces.
Our liberty cannot be taken away unless the people are themselves accomplices.
Donald Rumsfeld is the most ruthless man I have ever met? and I mean that as a compliment.
Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.
Would food be considered an instrument of national power? ... Is the U.S. prepared to accept food rationing to help people who can't/won't control their population growth?
I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in.
There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success.
First doubt, then inquire, then discover. This has been the process with all our great thinkers.
The hardest thing in the world to do is to think, and that is why people do so little of it.