Author of quotes: O. Henry (William Sydney Porter)

... dream to go to the West, where the client will always fight for their money with persistence, it is sufficient to your conscience allowed you to take away from him.
... wishing I was back in the West, where you could always depend on a customer fighting to keep his money hard enough to let your conscience take it from him.

- I was born on a farm in the County Olster. Seventeen I ran away from home. And to the West-I came by accident. I was walking along the road with a bundle in his hands, wanted to go to new York. Thought, get in there and start raking in the money. I always thought I was born for this. I came to a crossroads and don't know where I should go. About half an hour I pondered what to do, then turned left. By the evening I caught up with the circus cowboys and they moved West. I often wonder what would have happened to me if I chose another road.
I think it would be the same, philosophically replied Bob Tidball.

I always stand for the money. I read a whole encyclopedia through: all looking for something, which cannot be bought with money; so next week we can have must be to take on additional volume.

I heard that you need three generations to create a gentleman. Before it was so. And now it turns much easier and faster.

Every dollar in the hand of the other, I take it as a personal insult to yourself, if you can't see them as prey.
Every dollar in the other's hand I perceive as a personal insult to myself, if I can not take them as prey.

Love, business, family, religion, art, patriotism - is not nothing but shadows of words when a person begins to starve.
Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving.

This man's soul shone through for a moment as Peeps sometimes the face of the villain from the window of a respectable bourgeois home.

The cost was more than she bargained for. Costs always is.

Life is what we value most and the least protected.

Wealth means nothing when it comes to true love. Love is all-powerful.

In our big city perfume-Gemini - Romance and Adventure - always ready, always in search of their decent fans. When we wander on the street, they sneak glances at us, lured under the guise of dozens of different masks. Unknown why, we suddenly raised his eyes and see in another window face, obviously belonging to our portrait gallery of the most loved ones.

If you pay more than ten cents for a piece of soap, then once you take over the bad spirits and the wrapper.

Winter, entangled in the folds of the clothing of spring.

In may, nature threatens us with a finger to remind us that we are not gods some, but just too arrogant members of her large family. It gives us to understand that we are the brothers of the donkey and the fish, doomed the pan, the direct descendants of chimpanzees, and only second cousins cooing pigeons, quacking ducks and the housemaids and policemen in the Park.