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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Dorothy Parker

Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.

Tomorrow |

English Proverbs

If you lie with dogs you will get fleas.

Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

I'm going to stop punishing my children by saying, "Never mind! I'll do it myself."

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

Étienne Pivert de Senancour

If I am not for myself the right to life, which has given the company?

Pain |

Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.

Absurd | Distinction | Effort | Excitement | Growth | Ideas | Inevitable | Life | Life | Men | Organic | People | Right | Think |

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

21 Suggestions for Success: Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery. Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know. Be forgiving of yourself and others. Be generous. Have a grateful heart. Persistence, persistence, persistence. Discipline yourself to save money on even the most modest salary. Treat everyone you meet like you want to be treated. Commit yourself to constant improvement. Commit yourself to quality. Understand that happiness is not based on possessions, power or prestige, but on relationships with people you love and respect. Be loyal. Be honest. Be a self-starter. Be decisive even if it means you'll sometimes be wrong. Stop blaming others. Take responsibility for every area of your life. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did. Take good care of those you love. Don't do anything that wouldn't make your Mom proud.

Good |

Gustavo Gutiérrez

A neighbor is not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek.

Fighting | Good |

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

Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts.

Better | Cause | Peril | Time | Will |