Frank Gelett Burgess Famous Quotes



To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

"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."


Frank Gelett Burgess Quotations






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The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell

"Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep."
John Milton

"And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'."
Phoebe Cary

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Gilbert K Chesterton

"When people ask if the United States can afford to place on trial the president, if the system can stand impeachment, my answer is, Can we stand anything else"
George Stanley McGovern

Nature loves a burst of energy.
Boe Lightman

It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.
Joe Moore

Let's have some new cliches.
Samuel Goldwyn

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.
Horace

"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."
Charles Dickens