Gelett Burgess Quotes

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• To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

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  Inspirational, Appreciation, Appreciate

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

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  Happiness, Being Happy, Fun

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• Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

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  Friendship, Funny Friend, Love Is

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• It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.

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  Blood, Games, Play

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.

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  Women, Trying, Makest

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• A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero

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  Mother, Hero, Wife

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• Propose not to a woman when she hath gotten a new frock, nor when she is puffed up with victories; when she reigneth and rejoiceth in her hour of triumph, come not nigh unto her; but when she be ill or weary, when she is cast down in spirit and needeth a comforter, then be thou ready, and make thy suit.

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  Victory, Suits, Triumph

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• I never saw a purple cow;
  I never hope to see one;
  But I can tell you, anyhow,
  I'd rather see than be one.

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  Hope, Fun, Purple

  "The Purple Cow" l. 1 (1895) See Gelett Burgess 8

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• Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.

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  Progress, World, Sanity

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.

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  Love, Men, Lasts

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• When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

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  Inspirational, Food, Men

  Gelett Burgess (1937). “Look Eleven Years Younger”

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• Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason

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  Mother, Heart, Emotion

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• Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths.

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  Hate, Men, Cake

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• Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.

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  Friendship, Old Friends, Disillusionment

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• To take the world as one finds it

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  World

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• The old say, "I remember when." The young say, "What's the news?"

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  News, Aging, Remember

  Gelett Burgess (1937). “Look Eleven Years Younger”

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• Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

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  Wind, Sky, Imagination

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• Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful.

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  Motivational, Thinking, Faces

  Gelett Burgess (1937). “Look Eleven Years Younger”

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• Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.

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  Women, Men, Allies

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• Ah, yes! I wrote the "Purple Cow" - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!

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  Sorry, Writing, Purple

  "Confessional" l. 1 (1914) See Gelett Burgess 1

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• The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

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  Women

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• Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.

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  Women, Past, Names

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• Son, heed my instruction, and apply thyself to know women; let thine eyes observe her when she is with another, for what she doeth with him, she will do with thee, also.

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  Women, Eye, Son

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• My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.

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  Women, Son, Weapons

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• The world is full of women, and the women full of wile; so that a man, if he goeth not warily withal, shall surely fall a prey thereunto.

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  Women, Fall, World

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