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

Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL

Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.

Distrust | Men | Risk |

Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.

Better | Change | Distrust | Heart | Man | Nations | Reason | Thought | Trust | War | Will | World | Afraid | Child | Thought |

Tom Brown, Jr.

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

Distrust | Troubles | Worry |

William Shakespeare

By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune (Now, my dear lady) hath mine enemies Brought to this shore; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.

Distrust | Instinct |

François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.

Distrust | Injustice | Injustice | Reality | Self-interest |

Murasaki Shikibu, aka Lady Murasaki

In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The grand ladies with high ambitions thought her a presumptuous upstart, and lesser ladies were still more resentful. Everything she did offended someone.

Distrust | Heart | Will |

Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

My mind was never to invade my neighbors.

Desire | Distrust | Fear |

Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.

Dirty | Distrust | Hope | Man | Murder | War | Will | Murder |