O. Henry Quotes

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

Thanksgiving, American, Ours

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

True, Fate, Goes

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

Love, Religion, Family

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

Life, Made, Smiles

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

Woman, She, Act

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

May, Weather, Achieve

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

Vote, Hot, Shows

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

Funny, Time, Women

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

Few, Existence, Dough

Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hands he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way.
O. Henry

Another, Personal, Took

Write what you like; there is no other rule.
O. Henry

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

Nature, Choice, Places

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

Time, Women, Men

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

Home, Dark, Turn

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

Live, Nothing, Country

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

Rights, Call, Deal

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

State, Race, West

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

Happy, Old, Days

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

Old, Happened, York

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

Love, Said, Makes

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

Great, Place, Finish

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

Art, Hard, Service

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: September 11, 1862

Died: June 5, 1910

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