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 …

- Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

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

- Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

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

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 …

- Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

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

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

- Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

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 …

- Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett