Frank Gelett Burgess foi um humorista e poeta norte americano.
“Para apreciar o 'nonsense' é necessário interesse sério pela vida.”
To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life
Frank Burgess citado em "The Columbia dictionary of quotations" - Página 431, de Robert Andrews - publicado por Columbia University Press, 1993, ISBN 0231071949, 9780231071949 - 1092 páginas
“Máximas são pequenos sermões.”
Yet maxims have their place, for they are little sermons.
The Romance of the Commonplace - Página 291, Gelett Burgess - The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1916, 344 páginas
Poem Confession: and a Portrait Too, Upon a Background that I Rue (1897)
Reacting to the many parodies of his poem.
Confession (1897)
“A woman and a mouse, they carry a tale wherever they go.”
Gelett Burgess, The Maxims of Methuselah (1907).
“there are no roads in all Bohemia!”
From the essay Where is Bohemia? http://archive.org/stream/romanceofcommonp00burgiala#page/128/mode/2up in The Romance of the Commonplace (1902).
“To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.”
From the essay The Sense of Humor http://books.google.com/books?id=y-MhAAAAMAAJ&q="To+appreciate+nonsense+requires+a+serious+interest+in+life"&pg=PA64#v=onepage first published in The Romance of the Commonplace (1902).