“there are times when the one thing you haven't counts more than all the riches that may be yours.” Quote by 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.” PeopleHumansTimeSpeakForgetHealingMagicTendencies Author: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 would be a life which had nothing to grieve over!” IfsWould BeLostPoorGriefPayGrievingSooner Or LaterPenalties Author: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 you might call the genius of stupidity.” EnoughMightEffectsStupidGeniusStupidityBrilliantSuspects Author:Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
“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.” PeopleEnoughHappensBornEffortTroubleDyingSatisfiedBad ThingsAgonyUnnecessaryMisunderstandingWrong ThingsTurmoilIndignity Author:Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
“... if the Republicans don't bring prosperity, who on earth is going to?” IfsEarthRepublicanProsperity Author:Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
“I love you more than anything in this world. I don't expect that will last.” WorldHumorFunnyLastsLove YouThis WorldLove You MoreI Love You More Author:Elvis Costello
“I got very keen on biography because I wanted to change it. I wanted to stretch the form. I think of it as a way of capturing souls.” ThinkingWaySoulWantedFormBiographies Author:Ann Wroe
“Some sins have no season. We are as likely to be angry in November as to lose our rag in March ... There is, though, something autumnal about greed, apple-cheeked and wheat-crowned, purpled knee-high in grapes; something summery in sloth, as the hammock creaks in the fly-drowsy heat; and more than a tickle of spring in lust, as birds pair and the sap rises. Among these, ingratitude is winter, the worst of seasons.” LosesSinWorstGratitudeSpringBirdSeasonsAngryWinterGreedLustKneesHeatApplesPairsMarchGrapesNovemberWheatSlothRagsSapIngratitudeDrowsyHammocks Author:Ann Wroe
“Ingratitude is the frost that nips the flower even as it opens, that shrivels the generous apple on the branch, that freezes the fountain in mid-flow and numbs the hand, even in the very act of giving. It is a sin of silence, absence and omission, as winter's sin is a lack of light; a sin against charity, which otherwise warms the heart and, in the truest sense, makes the world turn.” WorldGivingHeartHandsLightTurnsSinSilenceFlowerFlowCharityWinterAbsenceGenerousApplesBranchesFountainFreezeTruestFrostIngratitudeOmission Author:Ann Wroe
“biography cannot be separated from autobiography: that is, the life written about is inextricably entangled with the life of the biographer.” WrittenAutobiographyBiographiesBiographers Author:Linda Simon