Don Herold (1889–1966) was an American humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist who wrote and illustrated many books and was a contributor to national magazines. He was born in Bloomfield, Indiana to Otto F. Herold and Clara Dyer Herold. He graduated from high school in 1907 and went on to the Art Institute of Chicago until 1908 when he transferred to the Indiana University. He was a member of the Phi Delta Theta fraternity and in 1913 he graduated with an A.B. degree. He married Katherine Porter Brown on August 12, 1916 and they had two children; one of whom was the writer Doris Herold Lund. He lived in Los Angeles in the 1920s and 1930s and New York City from 1940 to 1962. He died in Vero Beach, Florida.
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Don’t ever slam a door, you might want to go back.
—Don Herold
Topics: Opportunity
Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.
—Don Herold
Golf is not sacred, and there is no use getting so gosh-darned solemn about it
—Don Herold
Topics: Golf
There’s one thing about baldness, it’s neat.
—Don Herold
Topics: Appearance
Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.
—Don Herold
Topics: Work
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
—Don Herold
Topics: Humor
Babies are such a nice way to start people
—Don Herold
Topics: Funny quotes, Babies
I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.
—Don Herold
Topics: Wealth
Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people
—Don Herold
Topics: Morality
It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
—Don Herold
Topics: Life and Living
There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
—Don Herold
Topics: Intellectuals, Intelligence
If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I’d have fewer imaginary ones.
—Don Herold
Topics: Worry
Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.
—Don Herold
Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.
—Don Herold
Topics: Poverty, The Poor
There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
—Don Herold
Topics: City Life, Cities
Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
—Don Herold
Topics: Temptation
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
—Don Herold
Topics: Learning
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