Great Throughts Treasury

"Oh! The old European traditions! The timidities of expression of degenerate races!" -

"It seems to me there's this tyranny that's not accidental or incidental to make women feel compelled to look like somebody they're not. I think the effort is being made to get us to turn our time and attention to this instead of important political issues." -

"He had no wish to obliterate anything he had written, but he would dearly have liked to revise it, envying painters, who are allowed to return to the same theme time and time again, clarifying and enriching until they have done all they can with it. A novelist is condemned to provide a succession of novelties, new names for characters, new incidents for his plots, new scenery; but, Mr. Pinfold maintained, most men harbor the germs of one or two books only; all else is professional trickery of which the most daemonic of the masters — Dickens and Balzac even — were flagrantly guilty." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

"They should have told me that at the end of that gay journey and flower-strewn path were the hideous lights of home and the voices of children." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

"The devil knows that if the elders of Israel should ever wake up, they could step forth and help preserve freedom and extend the gospel. Therefore the devil has concentrated, and to a large extent successfully, in neutralizing much of the priesthood. He has reduced them to Sleeping Giants." - Ezra Taft Benson

"The world today speaks a great deal about love, and it is sought by many. But the pure love of Christ differs greatly from what the world thinks of love. Charity never seeks selfish gratification. The pure love of Christ seeks only the eternal growth and joy of others." - Ezra Taft Benson

"Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other." - Feisal Abdul Rauf

"The opposition tried to brand us as the 'Ground Zero megamosque.' The language was deliberately wordsmithed in order to arouse hostility against us. But the idea that the Jewish mayor of New York City and the president of the United States supported a mosque at Ground Zero, and took a lot of flak for it, raised their stature in the Muslim world." - Feisal Abdul Rauf

"Much water passes by the mill that the miller perceives not." - Italian Proverbs

"Muddy water won't do for a mirror." - Italian Proverbs

"There's no place like home." - Italian Proverbs

"To move heaven and earth." - Italian Proverbs

"Who hath no courage must have legs." - Italian Proverbs

"Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium." - J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

"A principal source of happiness to them was their shared love for their family...Tolkien was immensely kind and understanding as a father, never shy of kissing his sons in public even when they were grown men, and never reserved in his display of warmth and love." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

"And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien