Gelett Burgess Short Quotes

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

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

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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Her heart consenteth before her lips say: Yea; and in this interval lieth her Paradise; wherefore she would prolong it.

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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.

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

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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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