O. Henry Quotes, New York Quotes, Feet Quotes

If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece of fly-paper. You listen close when they're buzzing and trying to pull their feet out of the sticky stuff. "Little old New York's good enough for us"--that's what they sing.

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The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

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A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him for a horse.

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We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations, and especial trap is laid to trip up our feet with, and all are tripped up first or last. But the mighty mother, who had been so sly with us, as if she felt she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.

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Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

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Youth now flees on feathered foot.

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People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

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Our journey had advanced; Our feet were almost come To that odd fork in Being's road, Eternity by term.

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At the age of three my grand aunt proclaimed her independence by categorically refusing to have her feet bound, resolutely tearing off the bandages as fast as they were applied.

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It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

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Let the man stand on his feet. Let religion cease to be occasional; and the pulses of thought that go to the borders of the universe, let them proceed from the bosom of the Household.

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We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.

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Not feeling compassion for a stranger is like not feeling when one's foot has caught fire

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I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

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He whose head is in heaven need not fear to put his feet into the grave.

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When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, "Do what you like now."

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Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down

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We can take whatever path in worship we choose, but not all paths will end at the feet of Jesus.

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I have nothing Of woman in me; now from head to foot I am marble-constant.

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The Bishop has a skin, God knows, Wrinkled like the foot of a goose, (All find safety in the tomb.) Nor can he hide in holy black The heron's hunch upon his back, But a birch-tree stood my Jack.

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