Quote

We can't buy one minute of time with cash if we could, rich people would live longer.

O. Henry

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

O. Henry
Age: 47 †
Born: 1862
Born: September 11
Died: 1910
Died: June 5
Journalist
Writer
Greensboro
North Carolina
William Sydney Porter
Olivier Henry
Oliver Henry
Would
Time
People
Cash
Minute
Minutes
Longer
Rich
Live

More quotes by O. Henry

Image
Hospitality in the prairie country is not limited. Even if your enemy passes your way, you must feed him before you shoot him.
O. Henry
Image
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.
O. Henry
Image
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.
O. Henry
Image
I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lamp posts and newspaper stands.
O. Henry
Image
All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best
O. Henry
Image
Take of London fog 30 parts malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle.
O. Henry
Image
Write what you like there is no other rule.
O. Henry
Image
Women's weapon, water-drops.
O. Henry
Image
Greenwich Village... the village of low rents and high arts.
O. Henry
Image
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
Image
Most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another.
O. Henry
Image
Broadway - the great sluice that washes out the dust of the gold-mines of Gotham.
O. Henry
Image
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.
O. Henry
Image
A burglar who respects his art always takes his time before taking anything else.
O. Henry
Image
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.
O. Henry
Image
There was clearly nothing to do but flop down on the shabby little couch and howl.
O. Henry
Image
Those whom we first love we seldom marry
O. Henry
Image
Bolivar cannot carry double
O. Henry
Image
It ain't the roads we take it's what's inside of us that makes us turn out the way we do.
O. Henry
Image
This fair but pitiless city of Manhattan was without a soul ... its inhabitants were manikins moved by wires and springs.
O. Henry