O. Henry

If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they__ never marry.

And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part.

I 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 like a soft bullet.

He had become enveloped in the Indian Summer of the Soul.

No friendship is an accident.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.

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

You can't appreciate home until 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 shanty of a consul in a foreign town.

My advice to you if you should ever be in a hold up is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

If ever there was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson called New York.

She hadbecome so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like theair he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.