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“To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Appreciation #Appreciate #Serious
“There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play that is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Being Happy #Lying #Play
“Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Funny Friend #Love Is #Matter
“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.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Women #Eye #Son
“Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Women #Past #Names
“The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Women
“A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Two #Haste #Leisure
“Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Mother #Women #Years
“A woman findeth in her last lover much of her first love; but a man seeth his next-to-the-last love, alway.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Love #Men #Lasts
“No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Love #Men #His Love
“Love endeth like the chianti flask, its drops are bitter.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Love #Bitter #Chianti
“Tell not thy previous loves to a woman, lest she also telleth thee hers.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Love #Thee
“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.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Love #Eye #Son
“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.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Kissing #Skills #First Kiss
“My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Women #Son #Weapons
“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.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Women #Fall #World
“A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Women #Fool #Compliment
“Style is doing things not in any way but in the best way.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Style
“If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Mean #Past #Being Positive
“Every person has some splendid traits and if we confine our contacts so as to bring those traits into action, there is no need of ever being bored or irritated or indignant.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Bored #Action #Irritated
“To take the world as one finds it”
-- Gelett Burgess

#World
“Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap - even men who hate baths.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Hate #Men #Cake
“there are no roads in all BohemiaÂ !”
-- Gelett Burgess
“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.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Victory #Triumph #Suits
“Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Women #Pet #Suffering
“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.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Women #Taken #Heart
“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.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Women #Hands #Secret
“If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Women #Trying #Makest
“Many a maid have I won by a quarrel, when flattery was in no wise helpful; but take heed that thou art in the wrong, so that thou mayest acknowledge thine error.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Wise #Art #Errors
“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.”
-- Gelett Burgess

#Love #Women #Hands

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