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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Richard Dawkins

When you see a tiger, you had better not delay your prediction of its probable behavior.

Better | Delay | Prediction |

Robert Byrd, fully Robert Carlyle Byrd

I want answers - we all want answers - as to why it took so long for rescue teams to get on the ground. There is no excuse for the days of delay and the inexplicable lack of coordination in the response effort... We knew the danger was coming. Yet, the government failed to respond. Lives were lost because the government failed to do its job.

Danger | Delay | Government | Government | Danger |

Seymour E. Harris

It may be that we should stop putting so much emphasis in our own minds on the monetary value of a college education and put more emphasis on the intangible social and cultural values to be derived from learning. The time may be coming when we will have to start accepting the idea that education is life, not merely a preparation for it.

Ability | Abstract | Behavior | Delay | Important | Plan | System | Unique | Think |

Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Delay | Haste | Value |

Thomas Hardy

Indeed, he seemed to approach the grave as a hyperbolic curve approaches a straight line -- less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.

Delay | Earth | Enough | Happy | Love | Man | Nature | Plan | Present | Progress | Time | Waiting | Will | Wonder |

Wendell Phillips

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

Delay | Eternal | World |

Vladimir Lenin, fully Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.

Action | Death | Delay | Government | Government |

Vernon Howard, fully Vernon Linwood Howard

You must never fear anything at all.

Delay |

Tryon Edwards

Whoever in prayer can say, Our Father, acknowledges and should feel the brotherhood of the whole race of mankind.

Delay | Duty | Wisdom |

Hugh Blair

In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, motives and dispositions hold the place of actions.

Chance | Delay | Light | Plan | Time | Will |

William Shakespeare

Come, we have a hot venison pasty to dinner. I had rather than forty shillings I had my Book of Songs and Sonnets here. All’s Well That Ends Well, Act iv, Scene 3

Delay | Waste |

William Morris

Give me love and work - these two only

Day | Deeds | Delay | Distress | Life | Life | Love | Price | Deeds |

William Shakespeare

O momentary grace of mortal men, which we more hunt for than the grace of God! Who builds his hope in air of your fair looks, lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, ready, with every nod, to tumble down into the fatal bowels of the deep.

Delay | Mirth | Present | Will | Wise |

Eli Pariser

We need to fix the Bush prescription drug plan that subsidizes big pharmaceutical companies at the expense of senior citizens. We need to stop the oil companies from obscene profiteering, which reduces the standard of living for so many Americans. As usual, this Administration prescribes the same quack medicine for all our ailments: tax breaks for the richest Americans and the largest, most profitable corporations.

Delay | Diversion | Problems |

Emmet Fox

Refuse to tolerate anything less than harmony. You can have prosperity no matter what your present circumstances may be. You can have health and physical fitness. You can have a happy and joyous life. You can have a good home of your own. You can have congenial friends and comrades. You can have a full, free, joyous life, independent and untrammeled. You can become your own master or your own mistress. But to do this you must definitely seize the rudder of your own destiny and steer boldly and firmly for the port that you intend to make.

Ability | Absolute | Acquaintance | Action | Attention | Delay | Difficulty | Faith | God | Harmony | Man | Means | Mind | Need | Peace | Power | Prayer | Quiet | Struggle | Time | Truth | Will | Trial | God | Child | Think |

Eugenio Maria de Hostos (y Bonilla)

By educating women to use all their brains, men will not only be just, but will also ensure the future of a new social order in which women will apply their intelligence and warm feelings to the problems of living. Men are fools to entrust the upbringing of their sons, whom they expect to grow up to love freedom, to women who have never known freedom themselves.

Delay |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

A normal woman, indeed, no more believes in democracy in the nation than she believes in democracy at her own fireside; she knows that there must be a class to order and a class to obey, and that the two can never coalesce. Nor is she, susceptible to the stock sentimentalities upon which the whole democratic process is based. This was shown very dramatically in them United States at the national election of 1920, in which the late Woodrow Wilson was brought down to colossal and ignominious defeat?The first general election in which all American women could vote. All the sentimentality of the situation was on the side of Wilson, and yet fully three-fourths of the newly-enfranchised women voters voted against him.

Delay |