Great Throughts Treasury

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Evelyn Glennie, fully Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie

I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.

Balance | Think |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

My unhealthy affection for my second daughter has waned. Now I despise all my seven children equally.

Chance | Heaven | Knowing | Little | Man | Nothing | Race | Soul | Survival | Vision | World |

Eustace Budgell

The fair sex are so conscious to themselves that they have nothing in them which can deserve entirely to engross the whole man, that they heartily despise one who, to use their own expression, is always hanging at their apron-strings.

Friend | Man |

Evan Esar

If at first you do not recede, diet and diet again.

Man | Morality | Reason |

Evan Esar

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.

Man | Wife |

Evan Esar

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

Man |

Evan Esar

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

Man |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

There is nothing to be gained by multiplying social distinctions indefinitely.

Man |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

I knew what she meant, and in that moment felt as though I had shaken off some of the dust and grit of ten dry years; then and always, however she spoke to me, in half sentences, single words, stock phrases of contemporary jargon, in scarcely perceptible movements of eyes or lips or hands, however inexpressible her thought, however quick and far it had glanced from the matter in hand, however deep it had plunged, as it often did, straight from the surface to the depths, I knew; even that day when I still stood on the extreme verge of love, I knew what she meant.

Looks | Man | Reason |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

Speech | World | Think |

Evan Esar

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

Computer | Man |

Eustace Budgell

The proper business of friendship is to inspire life and courage; and a soul thus supported outdoes itself; whereas if it be unexpectedly deprived of these succors it droops and languishes.

Advice | Friend | Man | Friendship |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

There will be a prize of half a crown for the longest essay, irrespective of any possible merit.

Good | Looks | Man |

Ezra Taft Benson

As we cleanse the inner vessel, there will have to be changes made in our own personal lives, in our families, and in the Church. The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change. But we can do it.

Better | Business | Children | Church | Family | Ideas | Influence | Means | Men | Opportunity | Parents | Reason | Religion | Youth | Youth | Business | Child | Teacher |

Ezra Taft Benson

The great task of life is to learn the will of the Lord and then do it.

Belief | Experiment | Family | Freedom | Future | Genius | God | Government | Heaven | History | Inspiration | Knowledge | Land | Man | Men | Mission | Order | People | Purpose | Purpose | Right | Sense | Government | God |

Ezra Taft Benson

Our forefathers left us a free government which is a miracle of faith — strong, durable, marvelously workable. Yet it can remain so only as long as we understand it, believe in it, devote ourselves to it, and, when necessary, fight for it.

Better | Desire | God | Good | Life | Life | Man | Men | Progress | Rights | Sacred | God |

Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Light | Man | Reading |

Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

Chance | Ideas | Man | People | Right | Intellect |

Felix Adler

The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness.

Comfort | Law | Religion | Sacrifice | Service | Struggle |