O. Henry Quotes

Your education begins where what is called your education is over. Your fate is but the common lot of all.

Music is the language spoken by angels.

There is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.

Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live.

This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well.

With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground.

Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow.

All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain.

In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.

In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!

Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes.

Some must follow and some command, through all are made oclay.

As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.

God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again.

In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.

When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us.

The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed.

Difficulty on the way to victory is opportunity for God to work

When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it.

From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.

The destruction of our environment and resources cannot be stemmed unless the growth of the world's population is stemmed and ultimately reduced.

We must . . . guarantee women control over their own reproductive decisions.

Education of both men and women is a wonderful contraceptive.

Dear beauteous death, the jewel of the just.

O' who will walk with me along lifes merry way? A comrade blithe and full of glee, who dares to laugh out loud and free.

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.

You may have to live in a crowd, but you do not have to live like it.

Spend as much time as possible, with body and with spirit in God's out-of-doors.

Be grateful for the tiny details of your life and make room for unexpected and beautiful blessings.

Strange, isn't it? Each man's life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?

You are the architect of your own life.

No man flatters the woman he truly loves.

There is more or less of pathos in all true beauty. The delight it awakens has an indefinable, and, as it were, luxurious sadness, which is perhaps one element of its might.

Reason is not time only interpreter of life. The fountain of action is in time feelings.

Its awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

To yearn for a single, and usually simple, explanation of the chaotic materials of the past, to search for a single thread in that most tangled of all skeins, is a sign of immaturity.

We should not forget that our tradition is one of protest and revolt, and it is stultifying to celebrate the rebels of the past ... while we silence the rebels of the present.

America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.

We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything.

The greatest danger that threatens us is neither heterodox thought nor orthodox thought, but the absence of thought.

A long novitiate of acquaintance should precede the vows of friendship.

Faction is to party what the superlative is to the positive. Party is a political evil, and faction is the worst of all parties.

God is to me that creative force, behind and in the universe, who manifests Himself as energy, as life, as order, as beauty, as thought, as conscience, as love.

Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.

I wouldn't want to roll the dice on Kabul by myself, because I really think getting killed is definitely a possibility there. A very good possibility.

Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.