Great Throughts Treasury

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

Related Quotes

Virgil, also Vergil, fully Publius Vergilius Maro NULL

Perhaps, one day, remembering even these things will bring pleasure.

Future | Will |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

Meeting the Lord, Nanak has found peace and bliss; his life is redeemed, and prosperity dawns for him.

Love |

Atharva Veda, or Atharvaveda

The sweetness and pleasantness of personality should be evident in his actions and thoughts. This will help in establishing peace and happiness all round and lead to the feeling of universal brotherhood.

God | Lord | Peace | God |

Upton Sinclair, fully Upton Beall Sinclair, Jr.

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

Alchemy | Grief | Past | Pleasure | Present |

William Shakespeare

Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing.

Time | Woe |

William Shakespeare

Pray you bid these unknown friends to's welcome, for it is a way to make us better friends, more known.

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers.

Learn |

Euripedes NULL

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Troubles |