Don Herold Quotes

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.

A lot of men think that if they smile for a second, somebody will take advantage of them, and they are right.

There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.

Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we should never need solace.

Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.

[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast.

There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.

It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.

I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.

Gentlemen prefer blondes, but take what they can get.

Methods of locomotion have improved greatly in recent years, but places to go remain about the same.

Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.

If I had my life to live over, I'd pick more daisies.

Golf is not sacred, and there is no use getting so gosh-darned solemn about it.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Nobody ever looked up and saw a good shot.

Golf may be a hussy, but I love her.

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

Comic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips.

Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people

It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.

I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.

A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser.

Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.

About the time we get old enough to be as wicked as we want to be, we don't want to be so very wicked after all.

Very few people look the part and are it too.

Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.

Some people have nothing but experience.

I wish I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. If all you can see is your shadow, you're blocking your own light. If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

If I had my life to live over, I would try to make more mistakes. I would relax. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I know of very few things that I would take seriously. I would be less hygienic. I would go more places. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less spinach. I would have more actual troubles and fewer imaginary troubles.

If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.

In all systems of theology, the devil figures as a male person.

Babies are a great way to start people.

Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.

An honourable agreement among men as to their conduct toward women, and it was devised by women.

Be kind to dumb people.