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