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.