Oliver Herford Quotes

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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.

Oliver Herford
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.

Oliver Herford
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's; she changes it more often.

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Cat: A pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs and patronizes human beings.

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I don't recall your name, but your manners are familiar.

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Kiss: a course of procedure, cunningly devised, for the mutual stoppage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.

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Actresses will happen in the best-regulated families.

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Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.

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If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.

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The Tortoise is, to say the Least, A very Contradictory Beast. Though he may walk the wide world o'er He cannot step outside his Door.

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There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it.

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Consider now the Humble Mouse. He is an Outlaw in the House. He makes his Hiding in the Wall And lives upon the Crumbs that fall.

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Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a person of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment recall.

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The Pen-guin sits up-on the shore And loves the lit-tle fish to bore; He has one en-er-vat-ing joke That would a very Saint provoke: "The Pen-guin's might-i-er than the Sword-fish" He tell this dai-ly to the bored fish, Un-til they are so weak, they float With-out re-sis-tance down his throat.

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Child-ren, behold the Chim-pan-zee; He sits on the an-ces-tral tree From which we sprang in ag-es gone. I'm glad we sprang: had we held on, We might, for aught that I can say, Be horrid Chim-pan-zees to-day.

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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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