O. Henry
O. Henry
William Sydney Porter, known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. O. Henry's short stories are known for their wit, wordplay, warm characterization, and surprise endings...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 September 1862
CityGreensboro, NC
CountryUnited States of America
weather may climate
We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
life adversity pet
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
water weapons drop-of-water
Women's weapon, water-drops.
adventure shadow may
Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
moving two together
What is the world at its best but a little round field of the moving pictures with two walking together in it?
marriage men ifs
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
wonderful
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
home beer glasses
Be always decent and right in your home town; and when you're on the road, never take more than four glasses of beer a day or play higher than a twenty-five-cent limit.
giving giving-and-receiving wisest
O all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest. Everywhere they are wisest. They are the magi.
writing stories forget
If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
first-love firsts
Those whom we first love we seldom marry
soup faces stories
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.
ocean towns sides
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?
home men light
But how is it now? All we get is orders; and the laws go out of the state. Them legislators set up there at Austin and don't do nothing but makes laws against kerosene oil and schoolbooks being brought into the state. I reckon they was afraid some man would go home some evening after work and light up and get an education and go to work and make laws to repeal aforesaid laws.