Don Herold Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Be kind to dumb people.

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

Some people have nothing but experience.

Babies are such a nice way to start people.

Conversation: The slowest form of human communication.

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

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

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

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

Why resist temptation? There will always be more.

Very few people look the part and are it too.

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

Interruptions are the spice of life.

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

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

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

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.

Babies are a great way to start people.

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