Great Throughts Treasury

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

Related Quotes

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

Love | Mother |

Gustave Flaubert

Without ideality, there is no grandeur; without grandeur there is no beauty. Olympus is a mountain. The most swagger monument will always be the Pyramids. Exuberance is better than taste; the desert is better than a street-pavement, and a savage is better than a hairdresser!

Love | Plan |

Haile Selassie

Twenty-seven years ago, as Emperor of Ethiopia, I mounted the rostrum in Geneva, Switzerland, to address the League of Nations and to appeal for relief from the destruction which had been unleashed against my defenseless nation, by the Fascist invader.

Husband | Love |

Hannah Arendt

It is, in fact, far easier to act under conditions of tyranny than it is to think.

Love |

Hans Rosling

Health cannot be bought at the supermarket. You have to invest in health. You have to get kids into schooling. You have to train health staff. You have to educate the population.

Love | Old |

Italian Proverbs

One may buy gold too dear.

Faith |

Italian Proverbs

Still water breeds vermin.

Fear | Future | Hope | Think |

Italian Proverbs

Take down a thief from the gallows and he will hang you up.

Future | Hope |

Italian Proverbs

Not being tempted is a sign that fortune has forgotten you.

Faith | Will |

Italian Proverbs

Shame take him that shame thinketh.

Love | People |

Italian Proverbs

The ass does not know the worth of this tail till he has lost it.

Books | Character | Effort | Hope | Judgment | Will | Work | Realism |

Italian Proverbs

One daughter helps to marry the other.

Faith | Wit |

Italian Proverbs

That that comes of a cat will catch mice.

Day | Faith | Reality | Reason | Will | World |

Italian Proverbs

ne with the courage to laugh is master of the world almost as much as the one who is ready to die.

Love |

Italian Proverbs

No day but has its evening.

Competition | Focus | Important | Love | Question | Will |

Italian Proverbs

One is never too old to yearn.

Hate | Love | Philosophy | Reform | Will |

Italian Proverbs

Never rub your eye but with your elbow.

Love |

Italian Proverbs

People get the government they deserve.

Better | Love | Relationship | Understand |

Italian Proverbs

There goes more than one ass to market.

Ideas | Love | Qualities | Blessed | Winning |

Italian Proverbs

To every saint his torch.

Effort | Good | Hope | Important | Question |