Gelett Burgess Quotes
Top 47 wise famous quotes and sayings by Gelett Burgess
Gelett Burgess Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.
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!
Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.
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.
Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.
Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.
When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.
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.
My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.
Book-hunters are the most determined and interesting collectors in the world. I know of no passion to equal it.
Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.
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.
A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.
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.
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.
Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead
As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.
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.
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.