Gelett Burgess Quotes

• To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

  Gelett Burgess

  Inspiración, Agradecimiento, Apreciar

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• Si en los últimos años no ha descartado una opinión importante o adquirido una nueva, tómese el pulso. Puede que esté muerto.

  Gelett Burgess

  Change, Years, Age

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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.

  Gelett Burgess

  Happiness, Being Happy, Fun

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• Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.

  Gelett Burgess

  Friendship, Funny Friend, Love Is

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

  Gelett Burgess

  Progress, World, Sanity

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• Nunca he visto una vaca púrpura;
  Nunca espero ver una;
  Pero puedo decirte, de todos modos,
  que prefiero ver a ser una.

  Gelett Burgess

  Hope, Fun, Purple

  "The Purple Cow" l. 1 (1895) See Gelett Burgess 8

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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.

  Gelett Burgess

  Inspirational, Food, Men

  Gelett Burgess (1937). “Look Eleven Years Younger”

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• The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

  Gelett Burgess

  Woman (Mujeres)

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

  Gelett Burgess

  Mother, Heart, Emotion

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

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Trying, Makest

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• No le propongas matrimonio a una mujer cuando se ha puesto un vestido nuevo, ni cuando está hinchada de victorias; cuando reina y se regocija en su hora de triunfo, no te acerques a ella; pero cuando esté enferma o cansada, cuando esté abatida de espíritu y necesite un consolador, entonces prepárate y hazle tu proposición.

  Gelett Burgess

  Victory, Suits, Triumph

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• Hijo, si una doncella te ama, parecerás apuesto a sus ojos; alabará tus ojos y las comisuras de tus labios, sí, admirará tus manos. Aunque fueras como el orangután, te pintaría con fantasías.

  Gelett Burgess

  Love, Eye, Son

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• Algunas mujeres han de ser capturadas por asalto y otras tomadas por sitio; pero si no hay un traidor en su corazón que entregue la guarnición, no prevalecerás sobre ella.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Taken, Heart

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

  Gelett Burgess

  Hate, Men, Cake

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

  Gelett Burgess

  Friendship, Old Friends, Disillusionment

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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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.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Pet, Suffering

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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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  Women, Fall, World

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

  Gelett Burgess

  Love, Men, His Love

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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.

  Gelett Burgess

  Love, Men, Lasts

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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.

  Gelett Burgess

  Wind, Sky, Imagination

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• There are no roads in all Bohemia !

  Gelett Burgess

  Bohemia

  "The Romance of the Commonplace". Book by Gelett Burgess, "Where is Bohemia?", 1902.

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• La mayoría de las mujeres tienen a todas las demás mujeres como adversarias; la mayoría de los hombres tienen a todos los demás hombres como aliados.

  Gelett Burgess

  Women, Men, Allies

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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• 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.

  Gelett Burgess

  Blood, Games, Play

  Gelett Burgess (1916). “The Romance of the Commonplace”

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

  Gelett Burgess

  Love, Bitter, Chianti

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

  Gelett Burgess

  Mother, Hero, Wife

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