O. Henry Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

Every civilization that has ever existed has ultimately collapsed.

What we in America call terrorists are really groups of people that reject the international system

Hole in One: an occurence in which a ball is hit directly from the tee into the hole in a single shot by a golfer playing alone.

Bulb: potential flower buried in Autumn, never to be seen again.

I think that his [Obama's] task will be to develop an overall strategy for America in this period, when really a New World Order can be created.

Nonchalant putts count the same as chalant putts.

You do not sew with a fork and I see no reason why you should eat with knitting needles.

Few golfers are born with the natural talent for hitting the ball, but every player is blessed with the God-given ability to throw a club.

Donald Trump is a phenomenon that foreign countries haven't seen.

The historian must not try to know what is truth, if he values his honesty; for if he cares for his truths, he is certain to falsify his facts.

The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night.

The adventure of the sun is the greatest natural drama by which we live.

A leader who confines his role to his people's experience dooms himself to stagnation; a leader who outstrips his people's experience runs the risk of not being understood.

I just want to say one word to you-just one word ..."plastics!" ... There's a great future in plastics.

Character, character, character. First, second and third ... we were pretty rusty initially. When you have a break for a few weeks you get a bit of rust.

Families are the compass that guide us.

The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free peoples.

I don't read books, I write them.

Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God’s people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God.

As you pray and serve others, your knowledge that you are a child of God and your feelings about Him will grow.

The Father to whom we pray is the glorious God who created worlds through His Beloved Son.

The children of God have more in common then they have differences.

Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us.

In some ways, certain books are more powerful by far than any battle.

The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.

There are three proven rules for good teeth: brush after every meal; see your dentist twice a year; and mind your own business.

To see rich land eaten away by erosion, to stand by as continual cultivation on sloping fields wears away the best soil, is enough to make a good farmer sick at heart.

A lawyer is a gentleman that rescues your estate from your enemies and then keeps it for himself.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman's heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

History is only a catalogue of the forgotten.

Endeavour to be faithful, and if there is any beauty in your thought, your style will be beautiful; if there is any real emotion to express, the expression will be moving.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.

No man, however strong, can serve ten years as schoolmaster, priest, or Senator, and remain fit for anything else.

You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal...the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed.

The foaminess of the Falls, together with the tinge of tawny yellow in the troubled waters, only reminded me of so much unattainable soda and sherry, and made me feel thirstier than ever.

A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.

We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might.

Sanctified afflictions are spiritual promotions.

If ill thoughts at any time enter into the mind of a good man, he doth not roll them under his tongue as a sweet morsel.