Quotes About Herold

#1. There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship.

J. Christopher Herold

#2. Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Don Herold

#3. Babies are a great way to start people.

Don Herold

#4. Napoleon, who had an aversion to the moral laxity of the eighteenth century, which he blamed on the domination of society by women, was determined to reform family life on Roman, or perhaps rather on Corsican, principles. It was with him, not with Queen Victoria, that Victorian morality originated.

J. Christopher Herold

#5. A lot of men think that if they smile for a second, somebody will take advantage of them, and they are right.

Don Herold

#6. If you don't have an assistant, you are one!

Cameron Herold

#7. The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

Don Herold

#8. If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

Don Herold

#9. Babies are such a nice way to start people.

Don Herold

#10. About the time we get old enough to be as wicked as we want to be, we don't want to be so very wicked after all.

Don Herold

#11. Comic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips.

Don Herold

#12. Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

Don Herold

#13. Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.

Don Herold

#14. Golf may be a hussy, but I love her.

Don Herold

#15. This is the greatest paradox: the emotions cannot be trusted; yet it is the emotions that tell us the greatest truths.

Don Herold

#16. Interruptions are the spice of life.

Don Herold

#17. The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

Don Herold

#18. Meredith,' interposed Celia, 'makes one of his women, Emilia in England, say that poetry is like talking on tiptoe; like animals in cages, always going to one end and back again.

Harold Frederic

#19. If I had my life to live over, I'd pick more daisies.

Don Herold

#20. A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser.

Don Herold

#21. Be kind to dumb people.

Don Herold

#22. Work is the greatest thing in the world. So we should save some of it for tomorrow.

Don Herold

#23. Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we would never need solace.

Don Herold

#24. The English soldier was probably the worst-treated soldier in Europe, and judging from the English casualty rates during the Napoleonic wars, English generals were more lavish with their soldiers' lives than were their French and German colleagues.

J. Christopher Herold

#25. I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.

Don Herold

#26. It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

Don Herold

#27. The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.

Don Herold

#28. A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

Don Herold

#29. The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

Don Herold

#30. Gentlemen prefer blondes, but take what they can get.

Don Herold

#31. Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense.

J. Christopher Herold

#32. Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.

Don Herold

#33. A provisional government was appointed on April 1 (it consisted mainly of Talleyrand's whist partners), and the following day the Senate, on Talleyrand's urging, declared Napoleon deposed.

J. Christopher Herold

#34. Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

Don Herold

#35. Golf is not sacred, and there is no use getting so gosh-darned solemn about it.

Don Herold

#36. The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out of the way, they did him the favor of representing him as the torchbearer of the French Revolution. They did him the further favor of repeating his mistakes and besting him at them.

J. Christopher Herold

#37. Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family. Unfortunately the only possible result of despotism on either level is hypocrisy.

J. Christopher Herold

#38. Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

J. Christopher Herold

#39. The war against Napoleon was won not by England but by Russia, Austria, and Prussia; but England won the last battle and she won the peace.

J. Christopher Herold

#40. Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs

Cameron Herold

#41. Very few people look the part and are it too.

Don Herold

#42. Both my nine- and seven-year-olds have a stockbroker already.

Cameron Herold

#43. An honourable agreement among men as to their conduct toward women, and it was devised by women.

Don Herold

#44. The popular image [in England] of Bonaparte as a blood-stained tyrant and bandit was admittedly exaggerated, but instinct told even the most radical among the English that if liberty, equality, and justice were ever to come to their shores, it certainly was not Napoleon who would bring them there.

J. Christopher Herold

#45. Methods of locomotion have improved greatly in recent years, but places to go remain about the same.

Don Herold

#46. Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

Don Herold

#47. Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people

Don Herold

#48. There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.

Don Herold

#49. Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.

Don Herold

#50. It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant

Don Herold

#51. I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

Don Herold

#52. There is nobody as irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.

Don Herold

#53. if you're communicating with others only to tell them how you want things done, you're not communicating effectively.

Cameron Herold

#54. There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.

Don Herold

#55. Start building a network of fellow entrepreneurs that understand your passion and don't make you feel guilty about always chasing it.

Cameron Herold

#56. [Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast.

Don Herold

#57. Madame Tallien shared honors with Josephine Beauharnais in being mistress to Barras, an ex-nobleman and ex-terrorist whose appetite for beautiful women, beautiful young men, and money was the only wholesome trait in his character.

J. Christopher Herold

#58. Some people have nothing but experience.

Don Herold

#59. Nobody ever looked up and saw a good shot.

Don Herold

#60. I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

Don Herold

#61. Napoleon loved only himself, but, unlike Hitler, he hated nobody.

J. Christopher Herold