Fortune is a prize to be won. Adventure is the road to it. Chance is what may lurk in the shadows at the roadside.
—O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
Topics: Life
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man’s starving.
—O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
Topics: Poverty
If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they’d never marry.
—O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
Topics: Women, Men, Men & Women
A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows.
—O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
Turn up the lights. I don’t want to go home in the dark.
—O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)
Topics: Last Words
Wondering Whom to Read Next?
Edith Wharton American Novelist, Short-story Writer
Mario Puzo American Novelist
Louis L’Amour American Novelist
Larry McMurtry American Novelist
Sylvia Plath American Poet, Novelist
Don DeLillo American Author
Margaret Truman American Singer
Susan Sontag American Writer, Philosopher
Anthony Bourdain American Chef, TV Personality
Truman Capote American Novelist