Top 40 Don Herold Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.”

— Don Herold

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2. “Don’t ever slam a door, you might want to go back.”

— Don Herold

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

— Don Herold

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

— Don Herold

5. “Babies are such a nice way to start people.”

— Don Herold

6. “If I had my life to live over, I’d pick more daisies.”

— Don Herold

7. “Be kind to dumb people.”

— Don Herold

8. “Interruptions are the spice of life.”

— Don Herold

9. “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.”

— Don Herold

10. “This is the greatest paradox: the emotions cannot be trusted; yet it is the emotions that tell us the greatest truths.”

— Don Herold

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

— Don Herold

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

— Don Herold

13. “Why resist temptation? There will always be more.”

— Don Herold

14. “There’s one thing about baldness, it’s neat.”

— Don Herold

15. “Intellectuals should never marry; they won’t enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.”

— Don Herold

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

— Don Herold

17. “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

18. “Women give us solace, but if it were not for women we would never need solace.”

— Don Herold

19. “Nobody ever looked up and saw a good shot.”

— Don Herold

20. “Moralizing and morals are two entirely different things and are always found in entirely different people.”

— Don Herold

21. “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.”

— Don Herold

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

— Don Herold

23. “Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.”

— Don Herold

24. “Some people have nothing but experience.”

— Don Herold

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

— Don Herold

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

— Don Herold

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

— Don Herold

28. “A woman’s hair net tangled in a man’s spectacles on top of the bedroom dresser.”

— Don Herold

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

— Don Herold

30. “Golf may be a hussy, but I love her.”

— Don Herold

31. “Gentlemen prefer blondes, but take what they can get.”

— Don Herold

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

— Don Herold

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

— Don Herold

34. “Very few people look the part and are it too.”

— Don Herold

35. “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.”

— Don Herold

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

— Don Herold

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

— Don Herold

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

— Don Herold

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

— Don Herold

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

— Don Herold

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

— Don Herold

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

— Don Herold

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

— Don Herold