Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRYLife is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRYBride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
O. HENRYBe always decent and right in your home town; and when you’re on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
O. HENRYA story with a moral appended is like the bill of a mosquito. It bores you, and then injects a stinging drop to irritate your conscience.
O. HENRYHumans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.
O. HENRYShe had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed–necessary but scarcely noticed.
O. HENRYIt gives men courage and ambition and the nerve for anything. It has the colour of gold, is clear as a glass and shines after dark as if the sunshine were still in it.
O. HENRYIn the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.
O. HENRYHistory is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
O. HENRYThe lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
O. HENRYIf a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life.
O. HENRYBroadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
O. HENRYNow, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow’s grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.
O. HENRYWhen a man begins to be hilarious in a sorrowful way you can bet a million that he is dyeing his hair.
O. HENRYA good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.
O. HENRYThose whom we first love we seldom marry.
O. HENRY