Great Throughts Treasury

"In honor of October, really just hours away now..... Brew me a cup for a winter's night. For the wind howls loud and the furies fight; Spice it with love and stir it with care, And I'll toast our bright eyes, my sweetheart fair."

"Experience is a good teacher but she runs up big bills."

"Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt."

"A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul."

"Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast."

"Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty."

"The difference between a saint and a hypocrite is that one lies for his religion, the other by it."

"The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh."

"To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction."

"Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice."

"Matrimonially speaking, a bridle for the tongue is better than a rein for the heart."

"Smiles are the soul's kisses."

"The morals of today are the immorals of yesterday, the creeds of tomorrow."

"An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism, truth laughing at itself."

"Show me one who boasts continually of his openness, and I will show you one who conceals much."

"A homely face and no figure have aided many women heavenward."

"Doing all we can to promote our friend?s happiness is better than to continually drink to his prosperity."

"A fool bolts pleasure, than complains of moral indigestion."

"Between condolence and consolation there flows an ocean of tears."

"Experience has no text books nor proxies. She demands that her pupils answer her roll-call personally."

"Golden fetters hurt as cruelly as iron ones."

"Gratitude is the rosemary of the heart."

"Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him."

"Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish."

"Man proposes, woman forecloses."

"Intuition is truly a feminine quality, but women should not mistake rash conclusions for this gift."

"Simpatico is the touchstone that leads to talent?s highest altitude."

"Many women plume themselves upon their impregnable virtue, who have never met the man."

"Somnolence in society is a crime; better chatter like a magpie than blink like an owl."

"Smart society is a body of autocrats in deadly warfare against plutocrats."

"That one woman is capable of loving another is an historical truth; but never yet lived one who could not listen to her own praises at the expense of her adored friend."

"There never was a woman who did not prefer an oblique compliment to a straight truth - if the latter were unflattering."

"The very women who object to the morals of a notoriously beautiful actress, grow big with pride when an admirer suggests their marked resemblance to this stage beauty in physique."

"To control a man a woman must first control herself."

"To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius."

"When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird."