Great Throughts Treasury

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Archbishop Lakovos, born Demetrios Koukouzis NULL

Men and women are here for only one purpose, and, for that matter, the most sublime purpose: to try to re-create life in its original form by restoring beauty and order in their individual lives and by continuously striving to achieve the common dream of one world community... We must master and direct our destiny. We are here, therefore, to continue God’s creative work and give to life its true meaning: to arrive at His image and likeness and turn the world into a loving society of men and women.

Beauty | Destiny | God | Individual | Life | Life | Meaning | Men | Order | Purpose | Purpose | Society | Wisdom | Work | World | Society | Beauty |

Jules Janin

A woman is more responsive to a man's forgetfulness than to his attentions.

Forgetfulness | Man | Wisdom | Woman |

Okakura Kahuzo

We have an old saying in Japan that a woman cannot love a man who is truly vain, for there is no crevice in his heart for love to enter and fill up.

Heart | Love | Man | Wisdom | Woman | Old |

John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy

If men and women are in chains, anywhere in the world, then freedom is endangered everywhere.

Freedom | Men | Wisdom | World |

Alphonse de Lamartine, fully Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

He is no true man who ever treats women with anything but the profoundest respect. She is no true woman who cannot inspire and does not take care to enforce this. Any real rivalry of the sexes is the sheerest folly and most unnatural nonsense.

Care | Folly | Man | Nonsense | Respect | Rivalry | Wisdom | Woman |

Andrew David Kopkind

To be a revolutionary is to love your life enough to change it, to choose struggle instead of exile, to risk everything with only the glimmering hope of a world to win...Woman loves with her whole soul. To woman love is life, to man it is the joy of life.

Change | Enough | Hope | Joy | Life | Life | Love | Man | Risk | Soul | Struggle | Wisdom | Woman | World |

Alphonse de Lamartine, fully Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature - compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.

Compassion | Distinguish | Enthusiasm | Human nature | Nature | Wisdom |

Paulin Limayrac

The heart of a young woman in love is a golden sanctuary which often enshrines an idol of clay.

Heart | Love | Wisdom | Woman |

Alphonse de Lamartine, fully Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine

God has placed the genius of women in their hearts; because the works of this genius are always works of love.

Genius | God | Love | Wisdom |

Marya Mannes

Good-fellowship, unflagging, is the prime requisite for success in our society, and the man or woman who smiles only for reasons of humor or pleasure is a deviate.

Good | Humor | Man | Pleasure | Society | Success | Wisdom | Woman |

Jules Michelet

There is no such thing as an old woman. Any woman of any age, if she loves, if she is good, gives a man a sense of the infinite.

Age | Good | Man | Sense | Wisdom | Woman | Old |

Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

Contentment | Wisdom | Woman |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

God | Love | Man | Mistake | Wisdom | Woman | God |

David O. McKay

Reading affords the opportunity to everyone - the poor, the rich, the humble, the great - to spend as many hours as he wishes in the company of the noblest men and women that the world has ever known.

Men | Opportunity | Reading | Wisdom | Wishes | World |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.

Man | Wisdom | Wishes | Woman |

Friedrich Nietzsche, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Love for life is still possible, only one loves differently; it is like love for a woman whom one does not trust.

Life | Life | Love | Trust | Wisdom | Woman |

Austin O'Malley

Memory is a crazy woman that hoards colored rags and throws away food.

Memory | Wisdom | Woman |