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

Bahai’ Prayer NULL

Be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. Be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. Be a lamp unto those who walk in darkness, and a home to the stranger. Be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring. Be a breath of life to the body of humankind, a dew to the soil of the human heart, and a fruit upon the tree of humility.

Adversity | Body | Darkness | Heart | Humility | Judgment | Life | Life | Light | Prosperity | Speech |

Alfred Edward Newton

If this world affords true happiness, it is to be found in a home where love and confidence increase with the years, where the necessities of life come without severe strain, where luxuries enter only after their cost has been carefully considered.

Confidence | Cost | Life | Life | Love | World |

Arthur Koestler

Growing familiarity has the deadly effect of enabling one to predict the other person's responses; and when that happens, the stimulating quality and creative tension of a relationship are finished.

Familiarity | Relationship |

Baltasar Gracián

Avoid familiarities in intercourse. Neither use them nor permit them. The stars keep their brilliance by not making themselves common. Every familiarity breeds contempt.

Contempt | Familiarity |

Billy Graham, formally William Franklin "Billy" Graham

The foundations of civilization are no stronger and no more enduring that the corporate integrity of the homes on which they rest. If the home deteriorates, civilization will crumble and fall.

Civilization | Integrity | Rest | Will |

Charles Caleb Colton

Those who visit foreign nations, but who associate only with their own countrymen, change their climate, but not their customs; they see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untraveled minds.

Change | Men | Nations |

Charles Dickens, fully Charles John Huffam Dickens

If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the true metal and bear the stamp of heaven.

Earth | Heaven | Man |

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

Heaven |

Chief Joseph, born Hinmuuttu-yalatlat

Our fathers gave us many laws, which they have learned from their fathers; these laws were good. They told us to treat all men as they treated us; that we should never break a bargain; that it was a disgrace to tell a lie, that we should speak only the truth; that it was a shame for one man to take from another his wife, or his property without paying for it. We were taught to believe that the Great Spirit sees and hears everything and that he never forgets; that hereafter He will give every man a spirit home according to his desserts - if he has been a good man, he will have a good home; if he was bad, he will have a bad home. This I believe, and all my people believe the same.

Disgrace | Good | Man | Men | People | Property | Shame | Spirit | Truth | Wife | Will |

Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Action | Confidence | Courage | Doubt | Fear | Think |

Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey

If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Fear | Think |

Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey

Do you know that if you are courteous and pleasant all day during your work that you will go home at night less fatigued than if you gave way to irritation? Pleasantry, light laughs, relieve tension. It isn't work that makes you tired, it's your mental attitude. Try it.

Day | Light | Will | Work |

Eric Hoffer

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.

Man | Order | World |

Franz Kafka

There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. One has to go abroad in order to find the home one has lost.

Order |

George Moore, fully George Augustus Moore

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

Man | Search | World |

Georg Hegel, fully Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Religion [cannot] maintain itself apart from thought, but either advances to the comprehension of the idea, or, compelled by thought itself, becomes intensive belief - or lastly, from despair of finding itself at home in thought, flees back from it in pious horror, and becomes superstition.

Belief | Despair | Pious | Religion | Superstition | Thought | Thought |

Ibn Rahel

In a sound sleep the soul goes home to recruit her strength, which could not else endure the wear and tear of life.

Life | Life | Soul | Sound | Strength |

James Hamilton

Keep the home near heaven. Let it face toward the Father’s house. Not only let the day begin and end with God, with mercies acknowledged and forgiveness sought, but let it be seen and felt that God is your chiefest joy, His will in all you do the absolute and sufficient reason.

Absolute | Day | Father | Forgiveness | God | Heaven | Joy | Reason | Will | Forgiveness | God |

Jane Addams

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what it is taught, hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.

Future | Teach | Will | Child |