Oliver Herford

Oliver Herford (December 3, 1863 – July 5, 1935) was an American humorous poet and illustrator.

Quotes

• There is no time like the pleasant.
  • The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom (1905).

• Many are called but few get up.
  • The Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom (1905).

• Diplomacy: Lying in state.
  • The Altogether New Cynic's Calendar of Revised Wisdom for 1907 (1906).

Attributed

• My wife has a whim of iron.
  • Saturday Review of Literature, Volume 26 (1943), p. 4.

• A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's—she changes it oftener.
  • Saturday Review of Literature, Volume 26 (1943), p. 4.

• Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall.
  • Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 69.

• Only the young die good.
  • Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 70.

• Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
  • Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 187.

• I don't recall your name, but your manners are familiar.
  • Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms (1955), p. 187.

• Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
  • Ladies' Home Journal, Volume 72 (1955), p. 156.

• Actresses will happen in the best-regulated families.
  • The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations (1986), p. 9.

• Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs and patronizes human beings.
  • The Reader's Digest, Volume 121 (1982), p. 118.

Misattributed

• A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well.
  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton, as per Mackay's The Harvest of a Quiet Eye, A Selection of Scientific Quotations (1977), p. 34.

• Age, like distance, lends a double charm.
  • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Urania: A Rhymed Lesson (1846), p. 11.