A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
O. Henry

Bohemia 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 treasure and move away beyond the hills.
O. Henry

By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
O. Henry

By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.
O. Henry

East 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

If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. Henry

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
O. Henry

Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.
O. Henry

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.
O. Henry

It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
O. Henry


It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
O. Henry

It'll be a great place if they ever finish it.
O. Henry

Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
O. Henry

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!
O. Henry

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
O. Henry

The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
O. Henry

There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.
O. Henry

Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
O. Henry

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
O. Henry

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
O. Henry