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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Eugene Peterson

The story behind the writing of The Message (this was especially interesting to me).

God | Silence | Words | God |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

In any case, write what you know will always be excellent advice to those who ought not to write at all.

Books | Church | Meaning | Silence | Talking | Time | Writing |

Euripedes NULL

For the good, when praised, feel something of disgust, if to excess commended.

Quiet | Reserve | Silence |

Euripedes NULL

For chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Quiet | Reserve | Silence |

Euripedes NULL

Youth holds no society with grief.

Silence |

Evan Esar

It is better to give than lend and costs just about the same.

Noise |

Gustave Flaubert

It was for him that she had done it -- for this creature here, this man who understood nothing, who felt nothing.

Silence |

J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school styles of careful modesty in speech, with much understatement, have behind their masks an appalling and impregnable conceit of themselves.

Beginning | Change | Silence | Understand |

J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit.

Meaning | Noise | Unique | Will | Poem |