Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Gelett Burgess (American Humorist, Artist)

Frank Gelett Burgess (1866–1951) was an American 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 term “blurb”.

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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
Topics: Happiness

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.
Gelett Burgess
Topics: Self-Discovery, Change

Love is only chatter, friends are all that matter.
Gelett Burgess
Topics: Friends and Friendship

The old say, “I remember when.” The young say, “What’s the news?”
Gelett Burgess
Topics: Aging

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Gelett Burgess
Topics: Humor

Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.
Gelett Burgess
Topics: Friendship

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
Topics: Action

If you wish to be positive, which means youthful, never speak of the past any more than you can help.
Gelett Burgess
Topics: Aging

Ah, yes, I wrote the “Purple Cow”—I’m sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you, anyhow, I’ll kill you if you quote it.
Gelett Burgess
Topics: Quotations

Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.
Gelett Burgess
Topics: Progress

Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful.
Gelett Burgess
Topics: Smile

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