Oliver Herford Quotes

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• Gather kittens while you may, Time brings only sorrow; And the kittens of today; Will be old cats tomorrow.
• 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.
• Bigamy is one way of avoiding the painful publicity of divorce and the expense of alimony.
• A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.
• Many are called but few get up.
• Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
• Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.
• To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.
• An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.
• Diplomacy: lying in state.
• The Elf and the Dormouse UNDER a toadstool crept a wee Elf, Out of the rain to shelter himself. Under the toadstool, sound asleep, Sat…
• If some people got their rights they would complain of being deprived of their wrongs.
• There are more fish taken out of a stream than ever were in it.
• My wife has a whim of iron
• A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
• A man is known by the silence he keeps.
• A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
• Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
• Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
• The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.

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