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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Helen Rowland

Oh yes, there is a vast difference between the savage and the civilized man, but it is never apparent to their wives until after breakfast.

Love | Matrimony | Money |

Samuel Butler

Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.

Adultery |

Theodore Dreiser, fully Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser

And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he was made for. That was what he would have to do.

Age | Beginning | Enough | Man | Means | Yielding | Old |

Will Durant, fully William James "Will" Durant

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

Man | Wife |

Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers

I guess there is no two races of people in worse repute with everybody than the international bankers, and the folks that put all those pins in new shirts.

Wendell Berry

The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.

Adultery | Age | Disease | Giving | Man | Marriage | Public | Responsibility | Speech | Woman |

Turkish Proverbs

It is easy to say “Come”, difficult to say “Go”. (Used to caution that it is easy to invite someone, but difficult to ask them to leave.)

William Shakespeare

O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, leave not the mansion so long tenantless; lest, growing ruinous, the building fall and leave no memory of what it was!

Blush |

Elizabeth Gilbert

I couldn't care less about evidence and proof and assurances. I just want God. I want God inside me. I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on water.

Happy | People | Words |

Elizabeth Gilbert

I became one of those annoying people who always say Ciao! Only I was extra annoying, since I would always explain where the word ciao comes from. (If you must know, it's an abbreviation of a phrase used by medieval Venetians as an intimate salutation: Sono il suo schiavo! Meaning: I am your slave!) Just speaking these words made me feel sexy and happy. My divorce lawyer told me not to worry; she said she had one client (Korean by heritage) who, after a yucky divorce, legally changed her name to something Italian, just to feel sexy and happy again.

Balance | Behavior | Consequences | Depression | Ends | Family | Grief | Need | Panic | People | Will |

Elizabeth Gilbert

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

Knowing |

Elizabeth Gilbert

The Yogic path is about disentangling the built-in glitches of the human condition, which I'm going to over-simply define here as the heartbreaking inability to sustain contentment.

Better | Care | Order | Question | Solitude | Will | Woman |

Elizabeth Lesser

I have a card stuck on my refrigerator that shows a woman standing in reverence before an open freezer door, saying, 'Amazing! Perfect ice cubes again.' That's the kind of simple rapture I am talking about. I realize we are not put on this earth to stand around open freezers ranting like idiots about ice cubes. But a good quesiton to ask yourself is this: If perfect ice cubes or an evening sky or an old song on the radio has not made your heart flip-flop lately, why not? What is keeping you from feeling the rapture?

Change | Experience | Failure | Order | People | Safe | Failure |

Ellen Goodman

You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care.

Euripedes NULL

'Twas but my tongue, 'twas not my soul that swore.

Ezra Taft Benson

I testify that wickedness is rapidly expanding in every segment of our society. It is more highly organized, more cleverly disguised, and more powerfully promoted than ever before. Secret combinations lusting for power, gain, and glory are flourishing. A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing its evil influence and control over America and the entire world.

Church | Doctrine | Future | Government | Inheritance | Men | Rights | System | Will | Government |