O. Henry Quotes, Medicine Quotes, Funeral Quotes

Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Medicine Quotes , Funeral Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Choices Quotes , Doctrine Quotes

You can't appreciate home till 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Appreciation Quotes , Home Quotes

Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Country Quotes , Enemy Quotes

There is this difference between the grief of youth and that of old age; youth's burden is lightened by as much of it as another shares; old age may give and give, but the sorrow remains the same.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Grief Quotes , Grieving Quotes

Young artists must pave their way to Art by drawing pictures for magazine stories that young authors write to pave their way to Literature.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Art Quotes , Writing Quotes

When 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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Faces Quotes , Stories Quotes

Not very long ago some one invented the assertion that there were only "Four Hundred" people in New York City who were really worth noticing. But a wiser man has arisen - the census taker - and his larger estimate of human interest has been preferred in marking out the field of these little stories of the "Four Million.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , New York Quotes , Men Quotes

Humans were denied the speech of animals. The only common ground of communication upon which dogs and men can get together is in fiction.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Dog Quotes , Communication Quotes

Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Bravery Quotes , Advice Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Communication Quotes , Conversation Quotes

This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Spring Quotes , Cities Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Art Quotes , Food Quotes

What 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?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Sides Quotes

Yes, I get dry spells. Sometimes I can't turn out a thing for three months. When one of those spells comes on I quit trying to work and go out and see something of life. You can't write a story that's got any life in it by sitting at a writing table and thinking. You've got to get out into the streets, into the crowds, talk with people, and feel the rush and throb of real life-that's the stimulant for a story writer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Real Quotes , Writing Quotes

Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Sweet Quotes , Silence Quotes

The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Christmas Quotes , Wise Quotes

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , War Quotes

O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : O. Henry Quotes , Giving Quotes , Giving And Receiving Quotes