O. HenryIt couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York. ✨ O. Henry (2015). O. Henry's stories: Short Stories and Classic Literature, p.439, 谷月社342Reading
O. HenryEast is East, and West is San Francisco, according to Californians. Californians are a race of people; they are not merely inhabitants of a State. ✨ O. Henry (2016). The Com… ▶364HumanityPolitics
O. HenryBohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasur… ▶375Life
O. HenryWhen one loves one's Art no service seems too hard. ✨ O. Henry (1995). 100 Selected Stories, p.21, Wordsworth Editions366Love
O. HenryIf man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry. ✨ The Four Million Memoirs of a Yellow Dog (1906)311Time
O. HenryThe magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents. ✨ O Henry (2014). … ▶312Time
O. HenryNo friendship is an accident. ✨ O. Henry (2015). Heart of the West, p.21, Booklassic324LoveReading
O. HenryIt ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do. ✨ O. Henry (2006). Selected Stories, p.423, Penguin335Politics
O. HenryIf there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York379Hope
O. HenryA straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. ✨ A Ruler of Men. Book by O. Henry, 1913.314Reading
O. HenryI'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2. ✨ O. Henry (1993). Collected Stories of O.… ▶347Reading
O. HenryThere is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow … ▶3610ReadingSadness
O. HenryIt's said that love makes the world go around. Let me tell you, the announcement lacks verification. It's the wind from the dinner horn that does it. ✨ Heart of the West.294Love
O. HenryIf a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life305LifeLove
O. HenryThere was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, a… ▶349LifeReflection
O. HenryHe studied cities as women study their reflections. ✨ O. Henry (2015). The Gift of the Magi and Other New York Stories: The Skylight Room, The Voice of The City, The Cop and… ▶294DeathReflection
O. HenryI wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there lik… ▶272HumanitySadness
O. HenryIt was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.317Reading
O. HenryInject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence. ✨ O. Henry (2016). The Complete Works Of O. Henry, p.776, ShandonPress241Life
O. HenryWhat is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it? ✨ O. Henry (2016). The Complete Works Of O. Henry, p.194, Shan… ▶241Politics
O. HenryEach of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves. ✨ O. Hen… ▶3310LoveReadingThought
O. HenryLove and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! ✨ O. Henry (2015). O. Henry's stories: Short Stories… ▶242LoveReading
O. HenryThere is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous… ▶242ReadingTimeTruth
O. HenryA burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else. ✨ Sixes and Sevens,'Makes The Whole World Kin' (1911).286Time
O. HenryThe true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate. ✨ O. Henry (1992). The Gift of the Magi and Other Short Stories, p.15, Courier Corpo… ▶254Truth
O. HenryWe may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us. ✨ O. Henry (2006). Selected Stories, p.13, Penguin265Truth
O. HenryYou can't appreciate home till you've left it, money till it's spent, your wife till she's joined a woman's club, nor Old Glory till you see it hanging on a broomstick on the shan… ▶254Sadness
O. HenryI've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands. ✨ Treasury of World Masterpieces O.Henry.236Life
O. HenryAll of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's… ▶269Politics
O. HenryThere is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war. ✨ O. Henry (2006). Selected Stories, p.113, Penguin248LifeLove
