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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J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

The ideal society would enable every man and woman to develop along their individual lines, and not attempt to force all into one mould, however admirable.

Force | Individual | Man | Society | Wisdom | Woman | Society |

John Hall

There is evil enough in man, God knows; but it is not the mission of every young man and woman to detail and report it all. Keep the atmosphere as pure as possible and fragrant with gentleness and charity.

Charity | Enough | Evil | Gentleness | God | Man | Mission | Wisdom | Woman | God |

Thomas Haliburton, fully Thomas Chandler Haliburton, pseudonym "Sam Slick"

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy - the smile that accepts a lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby.

Envy | Smile | Wisdom | Woman | Words |

Jules Janin

A woman is more responsive to a man's forgetfulness than to his attentions.

Forgetfulness | Man | Wisdom | Woman |

Okakura Kahuzo

We have an old saying in Japan that a woman cannot love a man who is truly vain, for there is no crevice in his heart for love to enter and fill up.

Heart | Love | Man | Wisdom | Woman | Old |

Alphonse de Lamartine, fully Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

He is no true man who ever treats women with anything but the profoundest respect. She is no true woman who cannot inspire and does not take care to enforce this. Any real rivalry of the sexes is the sheerest folly and most unnatural nonsense.

Care | Folly | Man | Nonsense | Respect | Rivalry | Wisdom | Woman |

Andrew David Kopkind

To be a revolutionary is to love your life enough to change it, to choose struggle instead of exile, to risk everything with only the glimmering hope of a world to win...Woman loves with her whole soul. To woman love is life, to man it is the joy of life.

Change | Enough | Hope | Joy | Life | Life | Love | Man | Risk | Soul | Struggle | Wisdom | Woman | World |

Paulin Limayrac

The heart of a young woman in love is a golden sanctuary which often enshrines an idol of clay.

Heart | Love | Wisdom | Woman |

Marya Mannes

Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

Good | Humor | Man | Pleasure | Society | Success | Wisdom | Woman |

Jules Michelet

There is no such thing as an old woman. Any woman of any age, if she loves, if she is good, gives a man a sense of the infinite.

Age | Good | Man | Sense | Wisdom | Woman | Old |

Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

Contentment | Wisdom | Woman |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

God | Love | Man | Mistake | Wisdom | Woman | God |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.

Man | Wisdom | Wishes | Woman |

Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Love for life is still possible, only one loves differently; it is like love for a woman whom one does not trust.

Life | Life | Love | Trust | Wisdom | Woman |

Austin O'Malley

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.

Memory | Wisdom | Woman |

Alexander Pope

No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hates a man for being a friend to her.

Friend | Love | Man | Wisdom | Woman |

Claude A. Ries

A saintly colored woman who was greatly loved in her community was asked how she made and kept so many friends. She replied, "I stop and taste my words before I let them pass my teeth."

Taste | Wisdom | Woman | Words |