Oliver Herford (1863–1935) was 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 humorist.
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Diplomacy is living in state.
—Oliver Herford
Topics: Politics
Many are called but few get up.
—Oliver Herford
Topics: Inaction
What is my loftiest ambition? I’ve always wanted to throw an egg into an electric fan.
—Oliver Herford
Topics: Ambition
Tact is to lie about others as you would have them lie about you.
—Oliver Herford
Topics: Tact
Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
—Oliver Herford
Topics: Authors & Writing, Writers, Writing
Only the young die good.
—Oliver Herford
Topics: Dying, Death
A woman’s mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.
—Oliver Herford
Topics: Change
Modesty is the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
—Oliver Herford
Topics: Humility, Modesty, Charm
A hair in the head is worth two in the brush.
—Oliver Herford
Topics: Appearance
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