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

  Gelett Burgess

  Obesity, Thirty, Fats

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• As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Cat, Dark

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

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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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• 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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• There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream patterns, figures whimsical and figures grotesque, shifting and clad in complementary colors, to appease the indignant cups and rods of the retina.

  Gelett Burgess

  Dream, Eye, Color

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

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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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• Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.

  Gelett Burgess

  Mother, Women, Years

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• A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.

  Gelett Burgess

  Two, Haste, Leisure

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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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• If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.

  Gelett Burgess

  Mean, Past, Being Positive

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• Style is doing things not in any way but in the best way.

  Gelett Burgess

  Style, Way, Best Way

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• Every person has some splendid traits and if we confine our contacts so as to bring those traits into action, there is no need of ever being bored or irritated or indignant.

  Gelett Burgess

  Bored, Needs, Action

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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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• 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.

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  Wise, Art, Errors

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

  Gelett Burgess

  Men, Knowing, Stupidity

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