Oliver Herford famous quotes

Many are called but few get up.
-- Oliver Herford

A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
-- Oliver Herford

#Stones #Gains #Moss

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
-- Oliver Herford

#Funny #Sarcastic #Laughter

A man is known by the silence he keeps.
-- Oliver Herford

#Men #Silence #Quiet

There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it.
-- Oliver Herford

#Taken #Fishing #Streams

I heard a bird sing In the dark of December A magical thing And sweet to remember. 'We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September,' I heard a bird sing In the dark of December.
-- Oliver Herford

#Sweet #Spring #Dark

Some take their gold in minted mold, and some in harps thereafter, but give me mine in bubbles fine and keep the change in laughter.
-- Oliver Herford

#Laughter #Wine #Giving

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
-- Oliver Herford

#Inspirational #Witty #Drinking

Age, like distance lends a double charm.
-- Oliver Herford

#Time #Distance #Age

Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
-- Oliver Herford

#Art #Modesty #Pretending

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
-- Oliver Herford

#Ambition #Eggs #Fans

Children, behold the Chimpanzee: He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone.
-- Oliver Herford

#Children #Tree #Age

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
-- Oliver Herford

#Boston #Sailing #Get Away

There is always room at the top - after the investigation.
-- Oliver Herford

#Rooms #Investigation

My wife has a whim of iron
-- Oliver Herford

#Iron #Wife #Whim

Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.
-- Oliver Herford

#Cat #Sorrow #Today

Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
-- Oliver Herford

#Marriage #Divorce #Way

Diplomacy is living in state.
-- Oliver Herford

#Politics #States #Diplomacy

Diplomacy: lying in state.
-- Oliver Herford

#Lying #Dignity #States

The Elf and the Dormouse UNDER a toadstool crept a wee Elf, Out of the rain to shelter himself. Under the toadstool, sound asleep, Sat a big Dormouse all in a heap. Trembled the wee Elf, frightened and yet Fearing to fly away lest he get wet. To the next shelter-maybe a mile! Sudden the wee Elf smiled a wee smile. Tugged till the toadstool toppled in two. Holding it over him, gaily he flew. Soon he was safe home, dry as could be. Soon woke the Dormouse-"Good gracious me!" "Where is my toadstool?" loud he lamented. -And that's how umbrellas first were invented.
-- Oliver Herford

#Rain #Home #Two

If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.
-- Oliver Herford

#Rights #People #Society

Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
-- Oliver Herford

#Love #Dog #Hate

An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.
-- Oliver Herford

#Make The Best Of It #Cream

To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.
-- Oliver Herford

#Women #Noise #Sound

Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.
-- Oliver Herford

#Actresses

Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
-- Oliver Herford

#Lying #Tact

The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.
-- Oliver Herford

#Bagpipes #Jokes

I sometimes think the Pussy-Willows grey Are Angel Kittens who have lost their way, And every Bulrush on the river bank A Cat-Tail from some lovely Cat astray.
-- Oliver Herford

#Cat #Angel #Thinking

A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.
-- Oliver Herford

#Kissing #Speech #Moments

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.
-- Oliver Herford

#Men #Practice #Fame

Only the young die good.
-- Oliver Herford

#Death #Dying #Young

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
-- Oliver Herford

#Sex #Talking #Opposites