O. Henry Quotes
And as we continue to improve our understanding of the basic science on which applications increasingly depend, material benefits of this and other kinds are secured for the future.
Something called 'the Oklahoma Standard' became known throughout the world. It means resilience in the face of adversity. It means a strength and compassion that will not be defeated.
Love invites the Holy Ghost to be present to confirm truth. And the joy of learning divine truths creates love in the hearts of people who shared the experience of learning.
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.
If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.
The poor monkey, quietly seated on the ground, seemed to be in sore trouble at this display of anger.
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.
Economic growth and environmental protection are not at odds. They're opposite sides of the same coin if you're looking at longer-term prosperity.
Every global concern - economic, environmental or security-related - can be addressed more effectively when the U.S. and China work together.
Libel actions, when we look at them in perspective, are an ornament of a civilized society. They have replaced, after all, at least in most cases, a resort to weapons in defense of a reputation.
A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
So far from genius discarding law, rather is it the supreme joy of genius to re-enact the eternal and unwritten law in the chamber of its own intel-lect.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.
As long as possible live free and uncommitted. It makes but little difference whether you are committed to a farm or the county jail.
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.
We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.
Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.
My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.
We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.
If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth
I do not know at first what it is that harms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to be fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.
The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline.
At death our friends and relatives either draw nearer to us and are found out, or depart farther from us and are forgotten. Friends are as often brought nearer together as separated by death.
If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.
As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it.
I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.
If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro.