The selected quotes by O HENRY :-} !

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

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

3. Turn up the lights—I don’t want to go home in the dark.

4. It was beautiful and simple as all truly great swindles are.

5. She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint {the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership}.

6. Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

7. Inject a few raisins of conversation into the tasteless dough of existence.

8. The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.

9. It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

10. 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.