Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.

Gustavo GutiƩrrez

The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history.

Thinking | Will |

Guy-Philippe Goldstein

The information technologies which were historically born from military research are, today, on the verge of developing an offensive capability of destruction, which could tomorrow, if we?re not careful, completely destroy world peace.

Good |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks, and hobgoblins.

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Liberals have many tails and chase them all.

Business | Business |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.

Italian Proverbs

Nothing ventured nothing gained.

Peace | Happiness |

Italian Proverbs

The danger past, the saint cheated.

Children | Memory |

Italian Proverbs

To promise and give nothing is comfort for a fool.

Decision | Think |

Italian Proverbs

Where there is nothing to gain, there is a lot to lose.

Example | Knowledge | Light | Think |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't 0even be here. But we are.It's like in the great stories, Mister Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they we're. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy. How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened. But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer.

Happiness |