Gelett Burgess Quotes

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

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

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

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

Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

To take the world as one finds it

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.

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

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!

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

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

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.

Every person has some splendid traits and if we confine our contacts so as to bring those traits into action, there is no need of ever being bored or irritated or indignant.

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

There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream patterns, figures whimsical and figures grotesque, shifting and clad in complementary colors, to appease the indignant cups and rods of the retina.

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 cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.

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

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

To make fun of a person to his face is a brutal way of amusing one's self; be delicate and cunning, and keep your laugh in your sleeve, lest you frighten away your game.

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