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

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There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl. So Della did it. Which instigates the moral reflection that life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

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Those whom we first love we seldom marry

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There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

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I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.

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If there was ever an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptouwn on the Hudson called New York

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

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

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

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It ain't the roads we take; it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.

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It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

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Perhaps there is no happiness in life so perfect as the martyr's.

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

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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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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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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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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.

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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.

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