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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

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

Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat. — Gelett Burgess

It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly. — Gelett Burgess

Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful. — Gelett Burgess

The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge. — Gelett Burgess

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade. — Gelett Burgess

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

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

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

Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past. — Gelett Burgess

A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go. — Gelett Burgess

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

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

Maxims are like lawyers who must need to see but one side of the case. — Gelett Burgess

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

A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool. — Gelett Burgess

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies. — Gelett Burgess

Style is doing things not in any way but in the best way. — Gelett Burgess

Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths. — Gelett Burgess

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

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

Book-hunters are the most determined and interesting collectors in the world. I know of no passion to equal it. — Gelett Burgess

There are no roads in all Bohemia ! — Gelett Burgess

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

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

To take the world as one finds it — Gelett Burgess

Love endeth like the chianti flask, its drops are bitter. — Gelett Burgess

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life. — Gelett Burgess

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

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

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

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress. — Gelett Burgess

Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies. — Gelett Burgess

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter. — Gelett Burgess

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

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

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

A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure. — Gelett Burgess

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 — Gelett Burgess

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

No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not. — Gelett Burgess

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

If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries. — Gelett Burgess

A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero — Gelett Burgess

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

Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason — Gelett Burgess