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
Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.
If in the last few years you haven't discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse. You may be dead.
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.
Son, heed my instruction, and apply thyself to know women; let thine eyes observe her when she is with another, for what she doeth with him, she will do with thee, also.
My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.
A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.
If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.
Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.
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.
In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.
A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero
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.
The old say, "I remember when." The young say, "What's the news?"
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.