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
Gelett Burgess quotes about
The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.
Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.
Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.
Seek one woman whom thou canst trust, and to her who lovest thee best, tell thy secrets. She will deliver thee from the hands of strange women, she will expose their craft; and of her who flattereth thee, will she make known the reason.
Some women are to be captured by storm and some taken by siege; yet if there be not a traitor in her heart that shall deliver up the garrison, thou shalt not prevail over her.
As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.
Propose not to a woman when she hath gotten a new frock, nor when she is puffed up with victories; when she reigneth and rejoiceth in her hour of triumph, come not nigh unto her; but when she be ill or weary, when she is cast down in spirit and needeth a comforter, then be thou ready, and make thy suit.
there are no roads in all Bohemia !
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.
A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.
The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.
Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.
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.