Gelett Burgess Quotes

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• To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

  Gelett Burgess

  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.

  Gelett Burgess

  Happiness, Being Happy, Fun

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

  Gelett Burgess

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Love Is

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

  Gelett Burgess

  Friendship, Old Friends, Disillusionment

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

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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.

  Gelett Burgess

  Inspirational, Food, Men

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

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

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Trying, Makest

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

  Gelett Burgess

  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.

  Gelett Burgess

  Hate, Men, Cake

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

  Gelett Burgess

  Mother, Hero, Wife

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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.

  Gelett Burgess

  Love, Men, Lasts

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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.

  Gelett Burgess

  Blood, Games, Play

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

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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.

  Gelett Burgess

  Wind, Sky, Imagination

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• Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Pet, Suffering

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

  Gelett Burgess

  Progress, World, Sanity

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

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• Some women are to be captured by storm and some taken by siege; yet if there be not a traitor in her heart that shall deliver up the garrison, thou shalt not prevail over her.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Taken, Heart

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• Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error.

  Gelett Burgess

  Wise, Art, Errors

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• Love endeth like the chianti flask, its drops are bitter.

  Gelett Burgess

  Love, Bitter, Chianti

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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.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Fall, World

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• There are no roads in all Bohemia !

  Gelett Burgess

  Bohemia

  "The Romance of the Commonplace". Book by Gelett Burgess, "Where is Bohemia?", 1902.

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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.

  Gelett Burgess

  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.

  Gelett Burgess

  Hope, Fun, Purple

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

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• Son, if a maiden love thee, thou shalt appear handsome in her sight; she shall praise thine eyes, and the corners of thy mouth, yea, she shall admire thy hands. Though thou wert even as the orangutan yet shall she paint thee with fancies.

  Gelett Burgess

  Love, Eye, Son

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• A maiden's first kiss cometh hard, yea, it is as the first olive out of a bottle, requiring much skill; but the rest are easy.

  Gelett Burgess

  Kissing, Skills, Bottles

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• Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case.

  Gelett Burgess

  Needs, Sides, Lawyer

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

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• Seek one woman whom thou canst trust, and to her who lovest thee best, tell thy secrets. She will deliver thee from the hands of strange women, she will expose their craft; and of her who flattereth thee, will she make known the reason.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Hands, Secret

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