Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Paradise

"Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers." - Emil M. Cioran

"There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child." - Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

"It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

"Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity." - Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

"People believe a little too easily that the function of the sun is to help the cabbages along." - Gustave Flaubert

"You must grease the wheels if you would have the car run." - Italian Proverbs

"Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions; transparency is politics' management of mistrust." - Ivan Krastev