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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Henry H. Haskins

He who loses money losses much. He who loses a friend loses more. But he who loses faith loses all.

Faith | Friend | Money | Wisdom |

S. G. Goodrich, fully Samuel Griswold Goodrich, pen name Peter Praley

Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue, and renders a man, in the pursuit of defense of right, superior to the fear of reproach, opposition, or contempt.

Consciousness | Contempt | Courage | Defense | Fear | Man | Opposition | Right | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom |

Thomas Hobbes

Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools.

Men | Money | Wisdom | Wise | Words |

Victor Hugo

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

Charity | Cheerfulness | Money | Wisdom |

Hubert Humphrey, fully Hubert Horatio Humphrey

We are the standard-bearers in the only really authentic revolution, the democratic revolution against tyrannies. Our strength is not to be measured by our military capacity alone, by our industry, or by our technology. We will be remembered, not for the power of our weapons, but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

Capacity | Compassion | Dedication | Industry | Power | Revolution | Strength | Technology | Weapons | Will | Wisdom |

William James

The whole defense of religious faith hinges upon action.

Action | Defense | Faith | Wisdom |

Juvenal, fully Decimus Junius Juvenalis NULL

Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache in blindness of greed and live for their fortune's sake.

Fortune | Greed | Men | Money | Wisdom |

John Jay

Pride, arrogance and lust of conquest are the natural and bitter fruits of military preparation.

Arrogance | Conquest | Lust | Pride | Wisdom |

Janet Kauffman

If we care about the land, it will be necessary to redefine whole economies, not just the farm economy. A complex, solid economy could certainly grow around a policy of cooperation with natural environments. Why haven’t we proposed such policies - on a grand a scale as national defense - when our own species is at stake?

Care | Cooperation | Defense | Land | Policy | Will | Wisdom |

Bel Kaufman

Education is not a product: mark, diploma, job, money - in that order; it is a process, a never-ending one.

Education | Money | Order | Wisdom |

John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy

Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail.

Defense | Diplomacy | Wisdom |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits.

Wisdom |

John Morley, 1st Viscount Morely of Blackburn, Lord Morley

I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends, and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you.

Beauty | Children | Confidence | Day | Enough | Enthusiasm | Good | Health | Life | Life | Little | Money | Surplus | Wife | Wisdom | Work | Beauty | Happiness |

Baron de Montesquieu, fully Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu

The greatest security of the liberties of a people who do not cultivate the earth is their not knowing the use of money... The people who have no money have but few wants; and these are supplied with ease, and in an equal manner. Equality is then unavoidable; and hence it proceeds that their chiefs are not despotic.

Earth | Equality | Knowing | Money | People | Security | Wants | Wisdom |

William Mountford

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

Compassion | Man | Money | Self | Soul | Wisdom |