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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Eugene Peterson

Our Lord gave us the image of a child, not because of the childÂ’s helplessness, but because of the childÂ’s willingness to be led, to be taught, to be blessed.

Books | Care | Children | Counsel | God | Good | Leisure | Little | Need | Practice | Rest | Work | Counsel | God |

Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future too.

Children | Experience | Wisdom | Old |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

Love and hate are so confused in your savage minds and the vibrations of the one are so very like those of the other that I can't always distinguish. You see, we neither love nor hate in my world. We simply have hobbies.

Books | Children |

Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

My grandfather, the Senator [power broker Thomas Gore of Oklahoma], he was magnificent. He loathed the human race. He was extraordinary. He always said if there was another race, he would join it. And his grandson inherited much of his philosophy.

Mother |

Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder. You need to know that you were not created to work and produce and impoverish yourself to enrich an idle exploiter. You need to know that you have a mind to improve, a soul to develop, and a manhood to sustain.

Children | Duty | Obligation | Think |

Euripedes NULL

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Children | Love | People | Virtue | Virtue |

Euripedes NULL

A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

Children | Wife |

Euripedes NULL

Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.

Mistake | Opinion | Wisdom |

Evan Esar

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.

Mother |

Euripedes NULL

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Force | Men | Mistake | Rule |

Evan Esar

The wheel enabled man to get ahead - until he got behind it.

Children | Family | Parents | Trouble |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

Frankly, said the Doctor, I am at a loss to understand my own emotions. I can think of no entertainment that fills me with greater detestation than a display of competitive athletics, none - except possibly folk dancing.

Mistake |

Evan Esar

Many a man who goes to Las Vegas to get away from it all soon finds that Las Vegas gets it all away from him.

Love | Man | Mistake |

Evan Esar

Father's Day and Mother's Day are alike, except that on Father's Day you buy a much cheaper gift.

Children | Father | Mother |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

Of course those that have charm don't really need brains.

Children | Pleasure |

Ezra Taft Benson

A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially it is to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for 2 months.

Children | Money | Mother | Time | Child |

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

Occasionally, we receive questions as to the propriety of Church members receiving government assistance instead of Church assistance. Let me restate what is a fundamental principle. Individuals, to the extent possible, should provide for their own needs. Where the individual is unable to care for himself, his family should assist. Where the family is not able to provide, the Church should render assistance, not the government.

Better | Choice | Good | Important | Mother | Perfection | Principles | Qualities | Right | Think |

Ezra Taft Benson

Tonight I will speak to you about our beloved republic and the inspired agents whom God raised up to establish the foundation upon which our liberty rests. . . . I speak to you as members of the “household of faith,” the Lord’s true church, and remind you of your solemn charge to uphold, sustain, and defend the kingdom of God. The destiny of America was divinely decreed. The events that established our great nation were foreknown to God and revealed to prophets of old. As in an enacted drama, the players who came on the scene were rehearsed and selected for their parts. Their talent, abilities, capacities, and weaknesses were known before they were born.

Abundance | Authority | Body | Books | Man | Mother | Sense | Tenderness |

Ezra Taft Benson

Unless we do his teachings, we do not demonstrate faith in him.

Capacity | Children | Free enterprise | People | System | Will | World |