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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Edwin Hubbell Chapin

At the bottom of a good deal of bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion.

Bravery | Cowardice | Good | Men | Opinion | Public | Will | Wisdom | World |

Samuel Butler

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

Learning | Life | Life | Public | Wisdom |

Samuel Butler

The public buys its opinions as it buys its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

Public | Wisdom |

Chinese Family Planning Center Pamphlet NULL

Marriage is not a finished affair. No matter to what age you live, love must be continuously consolidated. Being considerate, thoughtful and respectful without ulterior motives is the key to a satisfactory marriage.

Age | Love | Marriage | Motives | Wisdom |

Maurice Chevalier, fully Maurice Auguste Chevalier

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Age | Old age | Wisdom |

Russell W. Davenport, fully Russell Wheeler Davenport

Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they knew to be right cannot be done.

Age | Men | Progress | Right | Wisdom |

Cyril Connolly, fully Cyril Vernon Connolly

Most of the beauty of women evaporates when they achieve domestic happiness at the price of their independence.

Beauty | Price | Wisdom | Beauty | Happiness |

William Congreve

One minute gives invention to destroy; what to rebuild a whole age employ.

Age | Destroy | Invention | Wisdom |

Thomas Dekker

To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that goes with work well done - this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.

Day | Desire | Heart | Joy | Laughter | Little | Love | Men | Mind | Purpose | Purpose | Reverence | Smile | Waste | Wisdom | Work |

Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens

The prejudices of men emanate from the mind, and may be overcome; the prejudices of women emanate from the heart and are impregnable.

Heart | Men | Mind | Wisdom |

Declaration of American Women NULL

Man-made barriers, laws, social customs and prejudices continue to keep a majority of women in an inferior position without full control of our lives and bodies. From infancy throughout life, in personal and public relations, in the family, in the schools, in every occupation and profession, too often we find our individuality, our capabilities, our earning powers diminished by discriminatory practices and outmoded ideas of what a woman is, what a woman can do, and what a woman must be... We lack effective political and economic power We have only minor and insignificant roles in making, interpreting and enforcing our laws, in running our political parties, businesses, unions, schools and institutions, in directing the media, in governing our country, in deciding issues of war or peace. We do not seek special privileges, but we demand as a human right a full voice and role for women in determining the destiny of our world, our nation, our families and our individual lives.

Control | Destiny | Family | Ideas | Individual | Individuality | Infancy | Life | Life | Majority | Man | Occupation | Peace | Position | Power | Public | Right | War | Wisdom | Woman | World |

Cleobulus NULL

We should render a service to a friend to bind him closer to us, and to an enemy in order to make a friend of him.

Enemy | Friend | Order | Service | Wisdom |

Norman Douglas, aka George Norman Douglas

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

Age | Character | Man | Wisdom |

Thomas E. Dewey, fully Thomas Edmund Dewey

No man should be in public office who can't make more money in private life.

Life | Life | Man | Money | Office | Public | Wisdom |

Albert Einstein

The aim of education must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals, who, however, see in the service of community their highest life problem.

Education | Life | Life | Service | Thinking | Training | Wisdom |

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Never expect women to be sincere so long as they are educated to think that their first aim in life is to please.

Life | Life | Wisdom | Think |

Thomas Dreier

A greater poverty than that caused by lack of money is the poverty of unawareness. Man and women go about the world unaware of the beauty, the goodness, the glories in it. Their souls are poor. It is better to have a poor pocket-book than to suffer from a poor soul.

Beauty | Better | Man | Money | Poverty | Soul | Wisdom | World |