Great Throughts Treasury
This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Thomas Shadwell
English Dramatist and Poet Laureate
"No man is happy but by comparison."
"Every man loves what he is good at."
"Hope is a very thin diet."
"And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind."
"Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart."
"T would make one scratch where It does not itch, to see fools live poor to die rich."
"I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water."
"The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world."