Burgoyne Quotes & Sayings

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

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

If the Republicans don't bring prosperity, who on earth is going to? — 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

Visual and performing artists produce art that lives in the present world. The art of the writer exists in another dimension. Through strings of words and phrases writers inspire their readers to imagine, to conjure images, to suspend disbelief, to enter a world visible only in their minds. It is in that unseen world where the art of the writer lives. — Mindie Burgoyne

While we remember that we are contending against brothers and fellow subjects, we must also remember that we are contending in this crisis for the fate of the British Empire. — John Burgoyne

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

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

The onset of bayonets in the hands of the valiant is irresistible. — John Burgoyne

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