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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Frank Gelett Burgess

There is work that is work and there is play that is play; there is play tht is work and work that is play. And in only one of these lies happiness.

Play | Wisdom | Work |

Samuel Butler

An honest God's the noblest work of man.

God | Man | Wisdom | Work |

Samuel Butler

To do great work a man must be very idle as well as very industrious.

Man | Wisdom | Work |

Chinese Family Planning Center Pamphlet NULL

Marriage is not a finished affair. No matter to what age you live, love must be continuously consolidated. Being considerate, thoughtful and respectful without ulterior motives is the key to a satisfactory marriage.

Age | Love | Marriage | Motives | Wisdom |

Calvin Coolidge, fully John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Ability | Discipline | Experience | Knowledge | Mind | Time | Wisdom | Work |

Marcelene Cox

Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.

Children | Glory | Parents | Wisdom |

Maurice Chevalier, fully Maurice Auguste Chevalier

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Age | Old age | Wisdom |

Russell W. Davenport, fully Russell Wheeler Davenport

Progress in every age results only from the fact that there are some men and women who refuse to believe that what they knew to be right cannot be done.

Age | Men | Progress | Right | Wisdom |

Clarence Darrow, fully Clarence Seward Darrow

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

Children | Doubt | Tragedy | Wisdom | Think |

Coleman Cox

I am a great believer in Luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.

Luck | Wisdom | Work |

Floyd Dell

Most of what we object to as misconduct in children is a natural rebellion against the intrusion of an unimaginative adult despotism in their lives.

Children | Object | Rebellion | Wisdom |

William Congreve

One minute gives invention to destroy; what to rebuild a whole age employ.

Age | Destroy | Invention | Wisdom |

Calvin Coolidge, fully John Calvin Coolidge, Jr.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work. Work is not a curse; it is the prerogative of intelligence, the only means to manhood, and the measure of civilization.

Civilization | Effort | Growth | Intelligence | Means | Wisdom | Work |

Thomas Dekker

To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the Ultimate Purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that goes with work well done - this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.

Day | Desire | Heart | Joy | Laughter | Little | Love | Men | Mind | Purpose | Purpose | Reverence | Smile | Waste | Wisdom | Work |

Chub DeWolfe

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.

Nothing | Wisdom | Work |

Norman Douglas, aka George Norman Douglas

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Man | Wisdom | Work |