Gelett Burgess Quotes

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

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.

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.

The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

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

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.

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.

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

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 are no roads in all Bohemia !

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

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.

Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.

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

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

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