Gelett Burgess Quotes

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

The difference between men and women seems to be this: I can argue with my promoter downstairs, accuse him of ripping me off, and 20 minutes later we'll be playing golf together. With a lady, the same argument can go on for, like, years.

Women cannot complain about men until they start gettting better taste in them.

Man wishes woman to be peaceable, but in fact she is essentially warlike, like the cat.

A clever woman often compromises her husband; a stupid woman only compromises herself.

If you are a human being, you might as well face it. You are going to rub a lot of people the wrong way.

It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.

What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.

But with man, — by Hercules! most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

Conflicts are not a sign you've married the wrong person. They simply affirm you are human.

Most men know what they hate, few what they love.

Bystanders wandered in and out of the merchant's stall, passing the time, talking of dreams they might purchase. Workers and slaves stooped from labor asked timidly for dreams of wine and ease. Women asked for dreams of love, and men for dreams of women.

If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.

And for that one moment of freedom you have to listen to all that love crap... it drive me nuts sometimes... I want to kick them out immediately... I do now and then. But that doesn't keep them away. They like it, in fact. The less you notice them the more they chase after you. There's something perverse about women... they're all masochists at heart.

Man's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.

I have, by long experience, found women to be like Telephus's spear: if one end kills, the other cures.

Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

Most men like in women what is most opposite their own characters.

You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way.

What is honor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms . . . or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.

Girls, give all your gentlemen friends an even break, even if you have to break them in the attempt.

To win a woman in the first place you must please her, then undress her, and then somehow get her clothes back on her, finally, so that she will let you leave her, you've got to antagonise her.

The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.

Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.

That's just what a woman is. She thinks she knows what's good for a man, and she's going to see he gets it; and no matter if he's starving, he may sit and whistle for what he needs, while she's got him, and is giving him what's good for him.