“The old say, "I remember when." The young say, "What's the news?"”
Source: Look Eleven Years Younger
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Famous Gelett Burgess Quotes
“The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.”
Source: The Romance of the Commonplace
“Old friends, we say, are best, when some sudden disillusionment shakes our faith in a new comrade.”
Source: The Romance of the Commonplace
“Count no matron happy until she hath passed thirty, and hath not waxed fat.”
“In the mind of a woman, to give birth to a child is the short cut to omniscience.”
Source: The Romance of the Commonplace
“Without bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.”
Source: The Romance of the Commonplace