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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English Proverbs

Too much water drowned the miller.

Good |

English Proverbs

What the heart thinks the tongue speaks.

Heart |

Erwin Straus

In sensory experience I always experience myself and the world at the same time, not myself directly and the Other by inference, not myself before the Other, nor without the Other, nor the Other without myself.

World |

Eric Temple Bell

If indeed, as Hilbert asserted, mathematics is a meaningless game played with meaningless marks on paper, the only mathematical experience to which we can refer is the making of marks on paper.

Means | Writing |

Eric S. Raymond

The workstation-class machines built by Sun and others opened up new worlds for hackers.

Good | Ideas |

Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

Onion rings in the car cushions do not improve with time.

Rest | Child | Old |

Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

Mother |

Erich Segal, fully Erich Wolf Segal

Please, if one of us cries, let both of us cry. But preferably neither of us.

Ability | Defeat | Paradox |

Erich Segal, fully Erich Wolf Segal

Now would you do me a favor?' From somewhere inside me came this devastating assault to make me cry. But I withstood. I would not cry. I would merely indicate to Jennifer - by the affirmative nodding of my head - that I would be happy to do her any favor whatsoever. 'Would you please hold me very tight?' she asked. I put my hand on her forearm - Christ, so thin - and gave it a little squeeze. 'No, Oliver,' she said, 'really hold me. Next to me.'I was very, very careful - of the tubes and things - as I got onto the bed with her and put my arms around her. 'Thanks, Ollie.' Those were her last words.

Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

Men |

Erin McKean

If you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi

Absurd |

Ernesto Sirolli

Planning is the kiss of death of entrepreneurship.

World |

Ernest Becker

All a child has to do is to learn to abandon ecstasy, to do without awe, to leave fear and trembling behind. Only then can he act with a certain oblivious self-confidence, when he has naturalized his world. We say naturalized but we mean unnaturalized, falsified, with the truth obscured, the despair of the human condition hidden

Freedom | Health | Man | Question |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Do you suffer when you write? I don't at all. Suffer like a bastard when don't write, or just before, and feel empty and fucked out afterwards. But never feel as good as while writing.

Good | Life | Life | Nothing | Plenty | Time | Worry |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio.

Happy | Lying | People | Sorrow | Happiness |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

I know that the night is not the same as the day: that things are different, that is what one feels at night, during the day cannot explain it, because then it does not exist, and the lonely people, where their loneliness one to take effect, the night can be a time Horrors.

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

But man is not made for defeat, he said. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Life | Life | Need |

Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

There was a time when the one singular thing that held a marriage together was the threat of getting the kids.

Body | Wants |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Get it straight. Your boy you lose. Love you lose. Honor has been gone for a long time. Duty you do.

Enough | Invention | Reason |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life

Life | Life | Pleasure | Wrong | Think |