Top 32 Oliver Herford Quotes
#2. Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.
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#3. Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
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#4. There is always room at the top - after the investigation.
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#5. 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.
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#6. Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
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#8. Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
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#9. Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
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#10. 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.
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#11. What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg into an electric fan.
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#12. 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.
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#15. An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.
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#17. A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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#18. When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.
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#19. There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it.
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#20. A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does.
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#21. Tact: to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
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#22. If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.
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#24. Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.
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#25. Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
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#26. When I grow up I mean to be
A Lion large and fierce to see.
I'll mew so loud that Cook in fright
Will give me all the cream in sight.
And anyone who dares to say
'Poor Puss' to me will rue the day.
Then having swallowed him I'll creep
Into the Guest Room Bed to sleep.
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#28. A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: she changes it more often.
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#29. Children, behold the Chimpanzee:
He sits on the ancestral tree
From which we sprang in ages gone.
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#30. The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.
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#31. To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.
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#32. A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.
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