Great Throughts Treasury

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Evan Esar

Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.

Love | Man | Mistake |

Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

Mistake | Prejudice |

Faye Wattleton

In a health-care situation, you see humanity at its most basic, and you realize there are no simple yes-or-no, right-or-wrong answers.

Family | Life | Life | Obligation | Parents | Sense | Value |

Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

Mistake | Prejudice |

Faye Wattleton

The future and strength of the race is for women to be able to have kids when they want them and to love and provide them with the tools they'll need to get through a hostile world. The image of the black woman bearing child upon child against her will is the real threat to the race.

Majority | Obligation | Policy | Public | Strength |

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

More people rust out than wear out.

Mistake |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

Mistake |

Italian Proverbs

When the sun shines on thee, thou needest not care for the moon.

Feelings | Mistake |

Italian Proverbs

When all men say you are an ass it is time to bray.

Failure | Future | Life | Life | Mistake | Present | Purpose | Purpose | Question | Right | Failure |

Italian Proverbs

You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Age | Important | Mistake | Myth | Question | Regard | Science |