Oliver Herford Quotes

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

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

There is a promise land. Just don't give up finding it. — Emel Oner

it is the only advanced society in which the incomes of the majority have not risen in the 1980s and 1990s, despite steady increases in productivity. — Arne L. Kalleberg

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

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

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

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

My wife has a whim of iron — Oliver Herford

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

I would like to throw an egg into an electric fan. — Oliver Herford

Diplomacy is living in state. — Oliver Herford

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

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

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

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

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

The biggest threat against the survival of humanity is not brutality and unkindness, it is stupidity and selfishness. — M.F. Moonzajer

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

The joke is that U2's new record only looked like a virus. Enjoy mining bitcoins for me losers. — Thom Yorke

A man is known by the silence he keeps — Oliver Herford

Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. — Kahlil Gibran

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

The man who believes that honesty is the best policy is not an honest man. — Paul Hoffman

Getting stuck in the past and whining about who had hurt us hampers our personal growth and submerges us in the sea of self-compassion. — Balroop Singh

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

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

A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does. — Oliver Herford

It's kind of true, you do disappear off the planet if you are a middle-aged woman, but that has some advantages as well. — Diane Keaton

I am for love, whether it's a man and a woman, a woman and a woman, a man and a man. — Rob Bell

Atheists have had to resort to wild speculations to give chance more of a chance. — Frank Turek

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

Only the young die good. — Oliver Herford

I would sooner play in a good British picture than in the majority of American pictures I have seen. — Glynis Johns

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

Many are called but few get up. — Oliver Herford

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

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

Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech. — Oliver Herford

Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you. — Oliver Herford