71 Quotes by Gelett Burgess

A wedding in haste is worth two at leisure.

Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.

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.

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.

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.