Gelett Burgess
Gelett Burgess
Frank Gelett Burgesswas an artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, he is best known as a writer of nonsense verse, such as "The Purple Cow", and for introducing French modern art to the United States in an essay titled "The Wild Men of Paris". He was the author of the popular Goops books, and he coined the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth30 January 1866
CountryUnited States of America
A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.
Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.
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.
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.
Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.
Love endeth like the chianti flask, its drops are bitter.
No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.
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.
A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.
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.
To take the world as one finds it
Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths.
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.
Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.