Don Herold

Who was Don Herold?

Don Herold 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.

Perhaps one of his more famous works is a poem called "I'd Pick More Daisies", also known as "If I had My Life to Live over", which was translated to Spanish as "Instantes" and misattributed to Jorge Luis Borges.The real poem, written by Don Herold was also misattributed to Nadine Stair

Famous Quotes:

• Unhappiness is not knowing what we want, and killing ourselves to get it.
• There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
• There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.
• Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.
• It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
• 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.
• Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
• Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.
• A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.