Oliver Herford Quotes

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• Many are called but few get up.

  Oliver Herford

  Inspirational, Get Up

  Oliver Herford (2014). “The Complete Cynic”, p.16, BookRix

  57 Copy quote

• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.

  Oliver Herford

  Deep Thought, Moss, Rolling

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

  Oliver Herford

  Funny, Sarcastic, Laughter

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• A man is known by the silence he keeps.

  Oliver Herford

  Men, Silence, Criminal Mind

  37 Copy quote

• 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

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• If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.

  Oliver Herford

  Rights, People, Society

  Oliver Herford, Addison Mizner (1907). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom...”

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

  Oliver Herford

  Art, Humility, Modesty

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

  Oliver Herford

  Funny, Ireland And The Irish, Bagpipes

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• 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

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• Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.

  Oliver Herford

  Lying, Tact

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• There is always room at the top - after the investigation.

  Oliver Herford

  Swimming, Motivational Sales, Rooms

  Oliver Herford, Ethel Grant, Addison Mizner (2017). “The Complete Cynic”, p.17, Litres

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

  Oliver Herford

  Ambition, Eggs, Fans

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

  Oliver Herford

  Food, Cooking, Culinary

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• 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

  Oliver Herford (1901). “Artful Antics”

  21 Copy quote

• There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it.

  Oliver Herford

  Taken, Lakes, Sea

  Oliver Herford (2014). “The Complete Cynic”, p.36, BookRix

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

  Oliver Herford

  Love, Dog, Hate

  "Attributed to Oliver Herford in The Reader's Digest, Volume 121 (p. 118)". 1982.

  54 Copy quote

• Diplomacy: lying in state.

  Oliver Herford

  Inspirational, Lying, Dignity

  Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner (1906). “The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom...”

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• 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

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• Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.

  Oliver Herford

  Marriage, Divorce, Way

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• 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

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• 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

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• Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

  Oliver Herford

  Inspirational, Witty, Drinking

  "Attributed to Oliver Herford in "Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms" (p. 187)". 1955.

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• Only the young die good.

  Oliver Herford

  Death, Dying, Young

  Oliver Herford (2014). “The Complete Cynic”, p.22, BookRix

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

  Oliver Herford

  Song, Silly, Ordinary

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would like to throw an egg into an electric fan.

  Oliver Herford

  Funny, Humor, Eggs

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