O. Henry Quotes, Baseball Quotes, Running Quotes

[A]ll of life, as we know it, moves in little, unavailing circles. More justly than to anything else, it can be likened to the game of baseball. Crack! we hit the ball, and away we go. If we earn a run (in life we call it success) we get back to the home plate and sit upon a bench. If we are thrown out, we walk back to the home plate -- and sit upon a bench.

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He seemed to be made of sunshine and blood-red tissue and clear weather.

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Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.

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If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

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To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.

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The lonesomest thing in all the world is a soul when it is making ready to go on its mysterious, far journey.

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

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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?

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Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.

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I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2.

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Now, girls, if you want to observe a young man hustle out after a pick and shovel, just tell him that your heart is in some other fellow's grave. Young men are grave-robbers by nature.

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

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

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

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Except in streetcars one should never be unnecessarily rude to a lady.

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

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Of habit, the power that keeps the earth from flying to pieces; though there is some silly theory of gravitation.

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A holiday in a new dresscan earth offer anything more enchanting?

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

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