Great Throughts Treasury

"There goes more than one ass to market." - Italian Proverbs

"Who takes an eel by the tail and a woman at her word, may say he holds nothing." - Italian Proverbs

"Who troubles others has no rest himself." - Italian Proverbs

"Every year we're spending more than two trillion dollars on healthcare, and yet 100,000 people a year are dying not because of the conditions they have, but because of the treatments that we're giving them." - Ivan Oransky

"A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours." - J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

"We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison." - J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

"It was a reaction from the old idea of protoplasm, a name which was a mere repository of ignorance." - J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

"A small oversight, but it proved fatal. Small oversights often do." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

"A tree there tower Tall and branching That house upholding The hall's wonder Its leaves their hangings Its limbs rafters Its mighty bole In the midst standing." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

"Courage will now be your best defense against the storm that is at hand-?that and such hope as I bring." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

"I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!" - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien