Don Herold quotes
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“The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.”
-- Don HeroldSource : Don Herold (1926). “There ought to be a law--”
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“It takes a lot of things to prove you are smart, but only one thing to prove you are ignorant.”
-- Don HeroldSource : Don Herold (1924). “So human”
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“Unhappiness is not knowing what we want and killing ourselves to get it.”
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“Babies are such a nice way to start people.”
-- Don HeroldSource : "Bewitched: Santa Comes to Visit and Stays and Stays". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1969.
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“Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.”
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“If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.”
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“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.”
-- Don HeroldSource : Don Herold (1926). “There ought to be a law--”
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“Why resist temptation? There will always be more.”
-- Don HeroldSource : Don Herold (1925). “Bigger & better”
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“Be kind and considerate to others, depending somewhat upon who they are.”
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“I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.”
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“[Reviewing a production of Uncle Tom's Cabin] The dogs were poorly supported by the cast.”
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“Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.”
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“Golf is not sacred, and there is no use getting so gosh-darned solemn about it.”
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“Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people”
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“An honourable agreement among men as to their conduct toward women, and it was devised by women.”
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“A woman's hair net tangled in a man's spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser.”
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“There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.”
-- Don HeroldSource : Don Herold (1926). “There ought to be a law--”
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“Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we would never need solace.”
-- Don HeroldSource : "Bigger & better".
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“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.”
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“There is something distinctive about living in New York; over eight million other people are doing it.”
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“The mind of man has no defense To equal plain, old common sense. This homely virtue don't despise, If you would be happy as well as wise.”
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“This is the greatest paradox: the emotions cannot be trusted; yet it is the emotions that tell us the greatest truths.”
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“A lot of men think that if they smile for a second, somebody will take advantage of them, and they are right.”
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“Comic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips.”
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“Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.”
-- Don HeroldSource : Don Herold (1930). “Strange Bedfellows: My Crazy-quilt Memoirs, Life-maxims and What-not”
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“It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.”
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“I had, out of my sixty teachers, a scant half dozen who couldn't have been supplanted by phonographs.”
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“The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.”
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“Very few people look the part and are it too.”
-- Don HeroldSource : Don Herold (1925). “Bigger & better”
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“Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.”
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“I do not believe in doing for pleasure things I do not like to do.”
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“Interruptions are the spice of life.”
-- Don HeroldSource : Don Herold (1930). “Strange Bedfellows: My Crazy-quilt Memoirs, Life-maxims and What-not”
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“In all systems of theology, the devil figures as a male person.”
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“The chief trouble with jazz is that there is not enough of it; some of it we have to listen to twice.”
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“There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.”
-- Don HeroldSource : Don Herold (1926). “There ought to be a law--”
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“A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.”
-- Don Herold
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