O. Henry Quotes, Home Quotes, Beer Quotes

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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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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All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

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He studied cities as women study their reflections.

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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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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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East is East, and West is San Francisco

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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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Each of us, when our day's work is done, must seek our ideal, whether it be love or pinochle or lobster à la Newburg, or the sweet silence of the musty bookshelves.

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

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Bolivar cannot carry double

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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.

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

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A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

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The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the drowning man; and it is not past belief that one may review an entire courtship while removing one's gloves.

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Write what you like; there is no other rule.

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

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History is bright and fiction dull with homely men who have charmed women.

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In the Big City a man will disappear with the suddenness and completeness of the flame of a candle that is blown out.

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

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