Oliver Herford
Oliver Herford
Oliver Herfordwas an American writer, artist and illustrator who has been called "The American Oscar Wilde". As a frequent contributor to The Mentor, Life, and Ladies' Home Journal, he sometimes signed his artwork as "O Herford". In 1906 he wrote and illustrated the Little Book of Bores. He also wrote short poems like "The Chimpanzee" and "The Hen", as well as writing and illustrating "The Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten"and "Excuse It Please". His sister Beatrice Herford was also a...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
CountryUnited States of America
Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.
Diplomacy is living in state.
A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does.
Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Only the young die good.
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.
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.
Song is the licensed medium for bawling in public things too silly or sacred to be uttered in ordinary speech.
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.
There is always room at the top - after the investigation.
I would like to throw an egg into an electric fan.