Quotes from Corra May Harris

So long as a man attends to his business the public does not count his drinks. When he fails they notice if he takes even a glass of root beer.

This is the wonderful thing about the pure in heart--they do see God.

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

I love truth, although I shall die hating mere facts, because they are misleading.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

I was not too stupid to learn, but too smart. Some instinct must have warned me that a woman accomplished in the domestic arts is frequently enslaved by them.

No one has yet had the courage to memorialize his wealth on his tombstone. A dollar mark would not look well there.