Gelett Burgess Quotes - Page 2

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• Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.

  Gelett Burgess

  Love, Thee

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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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• 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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• Hurry not a woman's favor; neither forcer her hastily to surrender to thee. For she goeth into love as she goeth into the waters at the seashore; first a hand and then a lip goeth she in by littles. She diveth not, she leapeth not from the pier; but by gentle shocks and cries of protest she entereth slowly; yet when the waters of love encompass her, then she is supported. She swimmeth in her joy; she floateth on the tide of happiness.

  Gelett Burgess

  Love, Women, Hands

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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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• To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.

  Gelett Burgess

  Fun, Self, Games

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

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• To take the world as one finds it

  Gelett Burgess

  World

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• A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Fool, Compliment

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

  Gelett Burgess

  News, Aging, Remember

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

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• Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.

  Gelett Burgess

  Dating, World, Thee

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• My feet, they haul me Round the House, They hoist me up the Stairs; I only have to steer them, and They Ride me Everywheres.

  Gelett Burgess

  Feet, House, Stairs

  Gelett Burgess (1901). “The Burgess Nonsense Book: Being a Complete Collection of the Humorous Masterpieces of Gelett Burgess ...”

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

  Gelett Burgess

  Motivational, Thinking, Faces

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

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• A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.

  Gelett Burgess

  Tales, Mice

  "The Maxims of Methuselah". Book by Gelett Burgess, 1907.

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

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Son, Weapons

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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.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Eye, Son

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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.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Past, Names

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• It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly.

  Gelett Burgess

  Beauty, Land, Ugly

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• In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.

  Gelett Burgess

  Children, Cutting, Giving

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• Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.

  Gelett Burgess

  Obesity, Thirty, Fats

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• The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.

  Gelett Burgess

  Temptation, Legs, Deny

  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!

  Gelett Burgess

  Sorry, Writing, Purple

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

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• As the dog becomes thoroughbred in the laws of clan and caste; obedient, fraternal and loyal; so is the man who accepts the gentleman's code.

  Gelett Burgess

  Dog, Men, Law

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• The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women

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• A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.

  Gelett Burgess

  Two, Haste, Leisure

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