Gelett Burgess Quotes
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.
Burgess, Gelett. The Maxims of Methuselah. Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907.
Politics is peculiar in the sense that most things are seen as black or white. In most other areas of human endeavor, people change, not because the old way was incorrect, but because the new way might be better. Einstein’s Theory of Relativity did not totally invalidate the physics of Issac Newton; it just improved on it in some areas.
Frank Gelett Burgess 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.
