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
Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths.
To take the world as one finds it
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.
Our bodies are apt to be our autobiographies.
Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.
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.
Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.
Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky; whereas fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.
A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.
The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.
there are no roads in all Bohemia !