Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett famous quotes

Worrying about where to begin puts you in a fair way to waste your life worrying, without getting noticeably closer to beginning.
-- Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

#Worry #Way #Waste

there are times when the one thing you haven't counts more than all the riches that may be yours.
-- Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

#Desire #May #Riches

When people speak of Time's healing magic, they are simply being euphemistic about our human tendency - and perhaps necessity - to forget.
-- Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

#Time #Healing #People

If you loved, sooner or later you always lost; that was the penalty you had to pay for loving. Grief can be endured - somehow. But how poor and bare would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!
-- Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

#Grief #Grieving #Pay

Anybody who is stupid enough often stumbles on an effect that could never be thought up by the most brilliant. I suspect that there is a thing which you might call the genius of stupidity.
-- Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

#Stupid #Genius #Might

Most trouble is unnecessary. Between the indignity of being born and the agony of dying enough bad things must of necessity happen to people. But we can't be satisfied with that. We have to go to work and see how much additional trouble we can create. Misunderstanding, turmoil, effort put on all the wrong things, and then more misunderstanding.
-- Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

#Agony #People #Effort

... if the Republicans don't bring prosperity, who on earth is going to?
-- Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

#Earth #Republican #Prosperity

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.

I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

All abuse and waste of God's creatures are spoil and robbery on the property of the Creator.

It's much more interesting to embrace who you really are rather than waste energy pretending to be someone else.

Believe me, a grain is a terrible thing to waste.

my Mamá Grande, a tiny Mayan woman, took me aside when I was an adolescent and told me several things that didn't make a bit of sense to my young and inattentive ears, and as young people tend to waste all attempts of our elders to relay to us wisdom accumulated over the decades, I thought my Mamá Grande had a few mice in the attic.