Great Throughts Treasury

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

Konrad Adenauer, fully Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer

German Statesman,first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany after WWII

"The good Lord set definite limits on man's wisdom, but set no limits on his stupidity and that's just not fair."

"All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue."

"History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided."

"The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror."

"We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon."