Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Mary Pettibone Poole
Author of book of Epigrams with title, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, published in 1938
"To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it, requires brains."
"He who laughs, lasts!"
"People who are always making allowances for themselves soon go bankrupt."
"Alcohol is a good preservative for everything but brains."
"People who think money can do anything may very well be suspected of doing anything for money."
"Experience is what you get looking for something else."
"There are no old people nowadays; they are either 'wonderful for their age' or dead."
"Culture is what your butcher would have if he were a surgeon."
"You can keep your friends by not giving them away."