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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• If in the last few years you have not discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.

  Gelett Burgess

  Change, Years, Age

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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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• The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women

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

  Gelett Burgess

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Love Is

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.

  Gelett Burgess

  Love, Men, His Love

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

  Gelett Burgess

  Love, Bitter, Chianti

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

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Men, Allies

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

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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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