O. Henry Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by O. Henry:

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


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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/o-henry-quotes/#a51b47ee

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/o-henry-quotes/#88e03fa2

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/o-henry-quotes/#e2fa1281

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/o-henry-quotes/#92813a0e

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/o-henry-quotes/#58524f09

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/o-henry-quotes/#2db43e87

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/o-henry-quotes/#969bb0f2

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/o-henry-quotes/#a8c2eb35

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/o-henry-quotes/#6c6c9e41

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/o-henry-quotes/#fc5a5b9a

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/o-henry-quotes/#068bbe9b

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/o-henry-quotes/#c6587e41

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/o-henry-quotes/#ee49d27b

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/o-henry-quotes/#398514de

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/o-henry-quotes/#d9b8e894

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/o-henry-quotes/#210e96f9

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/o-henry-quotes/#41eb9f5e

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/o-henry-quotes/#acbfd5b7

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/o-henry-quotes/#8e22761b

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/o-henry-quotes/#b1ad2ce5

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