O. Henry Quotes

There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain: But when youth, the dream, departs, It takes something from our hearts, And it never comes again.

Silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above.

Ledley King would get the ball off you without you even noticing he's the only defender in England who doesn't hold onto you, and he sometimes still gets the ball off my feet easily.

The hooves of the horse! Oh! witching and sweet is the music earth steals from the iron-shod feet; no whisper of love, no trilling of bird, can stir me as hooves on the horse have stirred.

For trust not him that hath once broken faith

Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resigns his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward.

There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

I still have dreams about CBGB's. I still miss the place.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.

And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.

Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

With faith and obedience practiced long enough, the Holy Ghost becomes a constant companion, our natures change, and endurance becomes certain.

I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart

Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

You cannot stay the way you are and go with God.

When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar.

The best actors do not let the wheels show.

Calculation never made a hero.

Give me liberty or give me death.

The bomb and the entrance of the Russians into the war will certainly have an effect on hastening the victory.

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!

If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the world.

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

The only thing you can give a man without hurting him is an opportunity.

I know I can't make everyone happy, but I know I can do the most justice I can possibly do to a character, or any character, if I put my all into it. That's the choice you have to make.

My mother and father have also raised five boys so they know there's only so much that can be controlled.

Dream big, sacrifice all, and you will enjoy victory.

The only thing I can promise is my best and when I bring my best, you're going to have to bring six people to beat me.

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.

We have to be honest, we have to be truthful and speak to the one dirty secret in American life, and that is racism.

The cancer doesn't bother me. I have great faith that the technology will beat it.