Great Throughts Treasury

"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting."

"To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing."

"It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room. "

"Seeing through is rarely seeing into. "

"To others we are not ourselves but performers in their lives cast for a part we do not even know we are playing. "

"Irony is the hygiene of the mind."

"We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck."

"Endurance is frequently a form of indecision."

"Entertaining is one method of avoiding people."

"Free love is sometimes love, but never freedom."

"I have made a great discovery. What I love belongs to me. Not the chairs and tables in my house, but the masterpieces of the world. It is only a question of loving them enough."

"It is never good dwelling on good-byes, she said, it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting"

"It is never any good dwelling on goodbyes. It is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting."

"Life more often teaches us how to perfect our weaknesses than how to develop our strengths."

"He is invariably in a hurry. Being in a hurry is one of the tributes he pays to life."

"Seeing through is rarely seeing into."

"The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head."

"Our losses should frequently be put on the credit side."

"You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify you from reading Das Kapital and agreeing with every word."

"Talk about the joys of the unexpected, can they compare with the joys of the expected, of finding everything delightfully and completely what you knew it was going to be?"

"We learn nothing by being right."