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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Benjamin Franklin

Remember, that time is money... Remember that credit is money... In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality, nothing will do. With them, everything.

Credit | Desire | Frugality | Industry | Money | Nothing | Time | Waste | Wealth | Will | Wisdom | Words |

Paul Géraldy, pen name of Paul Lefevre

No age or time of life, no position or circumstance, has a monopoly on success. Any age is the right age to start doing!

Age | Life | Life | Position | Right | Success | Time | Wisdom |

William Ewart Gladstone

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessing of Peace.

Love | Peace | Power | Time | Will | Wisdom | World |

William Ewart Gladstone

For works of the mind really great there is no old age, no decrepitude. It is inconceivable that a time should come when Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, should not ring in the ears of civilized man.

Age | Man | Mind | Old age | Time | Wisdom | Old |

George Gissing, fully George Robert Gissing

It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience.

Children | Day | Experience | Familiarity | Life | Life | Time | Wisdom |

Benjamin Franklin

The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is, waste neither time or money, but make the best use of both Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; and with them, everything.

Frugality | Industry | Money | Nothing | Time | Waste | Wealth | Will | Wisdom | Words |

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

A single mind can acquire a fair knowledge of the whole field of science, and find plenty of time to spare for ordinary human affairs. Not many people take the trouble to do so. But without a knowledge of science one cannot understand current events. That is why our modern our modern literature and art are mostly so unreal.

Art | Events | Knowledge | Literature | Mind | People | Plenty | Science | Time | Wisdom | Trouble | Art | Understand |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Enough | Time | Will | Wisdom |

Stefano Guazzo

What thing was the most swiftest in the world? Mans minde, because in a moment of time it discurres all things.

Time | Wisdom | World |

Ulysses S. Grant, fully Ulysses Simpson Grant, born Hiram Ulysses Grant

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

Opinion | Time | Wisdom |

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Tolerance comes with age; I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

Age | Fault | Time | Wisdom | Fault |

Seymour E. Harris

The time may be coming when we will have to start accepting the idea that education is life, not merely a preparation for it.

Education | Life | Life | Time | Will | Wisdom |

Ellen Goodman

Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor.

People | Time | Wisdom |

Carolyn Gold Heilbrun, pen name Amanda Cross

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Ideas | Time | Wisdom |

Hermetica - Asclepius III NULL

Eternity enters into time, and it is in time that all movement takes place... Eternity is not limited by the conditions of time, and time is eternal in virtue of its cyclic recurrence.

Eternal | Eternity | Time | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom |