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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Rudyard Kipling

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Woman |

Rudyard Kipling

The sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.

Woman |

Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL

The Prophets accept all agony and trust it for the water has never feared the fire.

Anger | Grace | Kindness | Light | Love | Mercy | Wise | Woman |

Russell H. Conwell, fully Russell Herman Conwell

Many of us spend our lives searching for success when it is usually so close that we can reach out and touch it.

Man | Woman |

Russell Kirk

If you want to have order in the commonwealth, you first have to have order in the individual soul.

Attainment | Conspiracy | Duty | Man | Men | Rights | Woman |

Rumi, fully Jalāl ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rumi NULL

Your essence is gold hidden in dust. To reveal its splendor, you need to burn in the fire of Love.

Angels | Day | Depression | Light | Man | Praise | Woman |

Rush Limbaugh

After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party.

Belief | Control | Important | Influence | Life | Life | Men | Need | Order | Power | Woman |

Russian Proverbs

It is good to be visiting, but it is better at home.

Woman |

Russian Proverbs

The world has been based on injustice since time immemorial.

Woman |

Bette Davis, Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.

Woman |

Sacha Guitry, fully Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry

When you listen to Mozart, the silence that follows is still Mozart.

Virtue | Virtue | Woman |

Bette Davis, Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis

Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies.

Man | Opinion | Woman |

S. Truett Cathy

Loyalty of your people is a key to most any business success.

Reputation | Leader |

Bette Davis, Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

Love | Man | Marriage | Wife | Will | Woman | Happiness | Understand |

Sacha Guitry, fully Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry

An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.

Woman |

Sacha Guitry, fully Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry

A woman who runs off with her lover does not abandon her husband; she rids him of an unfaithful wife.

Man | Woman |

Saint Bonaventure, born John of Fidanza Bonaventure

He enlightened our faith with proofs, lifted our hope with promises, so as finally to inflame our love with gifts from heaven.

Better | God | Love | Theology | Woman | God | Old |

Saint Basil, aka Basil of Caesarea, Saint Basil the Great NULL

Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.

Distinction | Woman | Guilty |

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, fully Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton

We know certainly that our God calls us to a holy life. We know that he gives us every grace, every abundant grace; and though we are so weak of ourselves, this grace is able to carry us through every obstacle and difficulty.

Woman | World |

Saint Maximus the Confessor NULL

When the demons see us disdaining the things of the world in order through them not to hate men and fall away from love, they then incite slanders against us, hoping that, unable to bear the hurt, we will come to hate those who slander us.

Body | Danger | Law | Meaning | Murder | Reason | Woman | Danger | Murder | Child | Understand |