There 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, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
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, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. HENRYHistory is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.
O. HENRYMost wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
O. HENRYThere are a few editor men with whom I am privileged to come in contact. It has not been long since it was their habit to come in contact with me. There is a difference.
O. HENRYInject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. HENRYWhen I see a shipwreck, I like to know what caused the disaster. I learned nothing but the glow that wrapped her face when the soup came. That’s the story.
O. HENRYTo a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
O. HENRYWe may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. HENRYBroadway – the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
O. HENRYWe can’t buy one minute of time with cash; if we could, rich people would live longer.
O. HENRYThe lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.
O. HENRYPerhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr’s.
O. HENRYI’ve got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
O. HENRYWhat else can you expect from a town thats shut off from the world by the ocean on one side and New Jersey on the other?
O. HENRYThere is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.
O. HENRYThose whom we first love we seldom marry.
O. HENRY