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
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.
Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.
Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.
When the waitress puts the dinner on the table, the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress.
No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.
A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.
Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths.
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.
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.