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
The bubble winked at me and said,'You'll miss me brother, when you're dead'.
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish.
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.
A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
I would like to throw an egg into an electric fan.
What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
Age, like distance lends a double charm.
To babble is to make a feminine noise somewhat resembling the sound of a brook, but with less meaning.
Actresses will happen in the best regulated families.
An epicure is one who gets nothing better than the cream of everything but cheerfully makes the best of it.
A pest is a person who can talk like an encyclopedia, and does.
A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous.
The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet.