Oliver Herford Quotes

Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

If you cannot have what you believe in, you must believe in what you have.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

As both a student of history and a man devoted to living in the present, I admit that I do not spend a lot of time imagining how things might otherwise have been. But I do like to think there is a difference between being resigned to a situation and reconciled to it.

If you cannot have the thing you want, you want the thing you have.

I thrive on cheese and champagne.

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

Food is the supremest of pleasures.

As you cannot do what you want, Want what you can do

Well if you can’t get what you love, You learn to love the things you’ve got .. If you can’t be what you want, You learn to be the things you’re not .. If you can’t get what you need, You learn to need the things that stop you dreaming

Lower your standards and relax as it is.

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it.

We must like what we have when we don't have what we like.

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.

So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.

Good food is the foundation of genuine happiness.

If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.

Enough or not...it will have to do