Gelett Burgess Quotes
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Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
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Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.
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Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.
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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!
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Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason
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Love endeth like the chianti flask, its drops are bitter.
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The old say, "I remember when." The young say, "What's the news?"
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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.
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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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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.
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When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.
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A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.
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If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.
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It was Matisse who took the first step into the undiscovered land of the ugly.
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Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.
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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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The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.
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A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
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A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.
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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.
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