Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Philip Moeller
American Stage Producer, Director, Playwright and Screenwriter
"Hell is the place where the satisfied compare disappointments."
"Death is the end of one story and the beginning of another."
"It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom."
"Memories are nothing but the lash with which yesterday flogs tomorrow."
"None is so blind as he who sees too much."
"The truth is never dangerous. Except when told."
"There is a glass called opportunity all pregnant with bright prophecies, if man but read at the propitious moment. But,--let the fecund second slip and lo! The globule tumbles from his coward's hands splintering a rain of lost forevers upon the sunless stretches of the world."
"No man weighs his words who has but a moment to live."
"To be conscious of happiness is to hear nemesis rapping at the portals."
"Women are seldom silent. Their beauty is forever speaking for them."
"A kiss is but a little sweetness, leaping the road to rapture."
"You should not blame the Gods for a lack of will."
"I don't believe in thought. Too much thinking."