Gelett Burgess Quotes - Page 3

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

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  Children, Cutting, Giving

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

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  Temptation, Legs, Deny

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

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• Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

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  Philosophy, Yoga, Inspiration

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

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

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  Beauty, Land, Ugly

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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.

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  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.

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  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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• 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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