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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Estonian Proverbs

Who has lied once will not be believed the second time.

Good | Wife |

Estonian Proverbs

The mistakes of other people are good teachers.

Husband | Marriage | Wife |

Estonian Proverbs

Don't put off today's work till tomorrow.

Wife |

Eugene Peterson

We live in a society that is in slavery. Maybe not institutionalized, but slavery, nonetheless. Freedom is on everyone’s lips. Freedom is announced and celebrated. But not many feel or act free. Evidence we live in a nation of complainers and a society of addicts. –

Children | Faith | Feelings | God | Wife | God | Learn |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

Now look here, Smithers. They's two kind's of stealing. They's the small kind, like what you does, and the big kind, like I does. Fo' de small stealing dey put you in jail soon or late. But fo' de big stealin' dey puts your picture in de paper and yo' statue in de Hall of Fame when you croak. If dey's one thing I learned in ten years on de Pullman cars, listenin' to de white quality talk, it's dat same fact. And when I gits a chance to use it . . . from stowaway to emperor in two years. Dat's goin' some!

Life | Life | Self |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

But land is land, and it's safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers.

Life | Life | Self |

Euripedes NULL

A woman like me! What am I like that's different from you or any man

Man | Wife | Wise |

Euripedes NULL

And so my thoughts have lead me to believe that childless men and women lead lives more fortunate than those with sons and daughters.

Reputation | Success |

Euripedes NULL

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

Children | Wife |

Euripedes NULL

Of all the evils that infest a state, a tyrant is the greatest; his sole will commands the laws, and lords it over them.

Daughter | Evil | Father | God | Gold | Good | Heaven | Mind | Nature | Nothing | Order | Wife | Will | God |

Eustace Budgell

The beard, conformable to the notion of my friend Sir Roger, was for many ages looked upon as the type of wisdom. Lucian more than once rallies the philosophers of his time, who endeavored to rival one another in beards; and represents a learned man who stood for a professorship in philosophy, as unqualified for it by the shortness of his beard.

Business | Little | Love | Wife | Engagement | Business |

Evan Esar

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.

Man | Wife |

Ezra Taft Benson

Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God.

Care | Devil | Force | God | Looks | Man | Men | Pride | Self | Spirit | God |

Ezra Taft Benson

One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to.

Attention | Cause | Family | Man | Problems | Self | Woman |

Faith Popcorn, born Faith Plotkin

People are getting nervous about pharmaceuticals. If it's food, people trust it more. And people are also so happy to hear that something they love to eat is also good for them.

Language | Wife | Think | Understand |

Ezra Taft Benson

It’s a great blessing to live in America. It’s a great blessing to have the opportunity to enjoy the freedoms which are ours today. I have seen people, thousands of them, who have lost the freedom which is ours, where they can no longer meet, as we meet here this morning, and express themselves as they see fit, where they no longer have freedom of movement, freedom to select their own jobs, their own educational opportunities, freedom to speak their minds, to write what they wish – freedom of enterprise. In many parts of the world today these rich blessings of freedom no longer exist.

Blessings | Destiny | Dignity | Eternal | Family | Glory | Law | Lord | Receive | Time | Wife |

Gustave Flaubert

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Good | Reputation |

Gustave Flaubert

One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.

Fighting | Fun | Learning | Wife |

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

Reputation |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

Good | Wife |