Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

There is no such thing as a true account of anything.

People |

Euripedes NULL

There is no harbor of peace from the changing waves of joy and despair.

Bitterness | People |

Euripedes NULL

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Children | Love | People | Virtue | Virtue |

Euripedes NULL

No one who goes against her can win.

People |

Eugenio Montale

I love athletics because it is poetry If the night dream, dream to be a marathon runner.

Art | People | Truth | Art |

Evelyn Underhill

Many people seem to think that the spiritual life necessarily requires a definite and exacting plan of study. It does not. But it does require a definite plan of life; and courage in sticking to the plan, not for merely days or weeks, but for years.

Angels | Beauty | Church | Ends | Little | Universe | Worship | Beauty |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house.

Cause | Death | Life | Life | Man | People | Public |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

Absurd | People |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

Chance | Family | Impulse | Nature | People |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain from destruction.

People | Prison | Public | Will |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

'But what am I to teach them?' said Paul in sudden panic. 'Oh, I shouldn't try to teach them anything, not just yet, anyway. Just keep them quiet.'

People |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

Downstairs Peter Beste-Chetwynde mixed himself another brandy and soda and turned a page in Havelock Ellis, which, next to The Wind in the Willows, was his favourite book.

Church | Faith | Father | Hunger | People | Religion | Right | Words | Worth | Think |

Ezra Taft Benson

And so this great nation has come into being under the inspiration of the Almighty to accomplish his purposes. Through modern revelation we have had made very plain to us something of the mission of America and the establishment of our national Constitution.

Blessings | Free enterprise | Men | Mind | People | Right | System | Time |

Evan Esar

The trouble with the family is that children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.

People | World |

Evelyn Glennie, fully Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie

The audience plays a huge part in how a piece will actually form. They really allow the performers to walk a tightrope in a way that never seems to happen in the privacy of your own four walls. I'm listening to the audience, and they're listening to me.

Need | People |