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

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Find fault with thyself rather than with others.

Mind | Peace |

Hugh Blair

Adversity, how blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

Age | Benevolence | Conduct | Evil | Good | Hope | Kindness | Love | Man | Old age | Peace | Respect | Time | Will | Respect | Old |

Tom Hayden, fully Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden

Imagine a nineteenth-century Jane Fonda visiting the Oglala Sioux in the Black Hills before the battle at Little Big Horn. Imagine her examining Crazy Horse's arrows or climbing upon Sitting Bull's horse. Such behavior by a well-known actress no doubt would have infuriated Gen. George Armstrong Custer, but what would the rest of us feel today

Hope | Nothing | Peace | Politics | War |

Thurgood Marshall

Customary greeting to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, “What's shaking, chiefy baby?”

Energy | Feelings | Heart | People | Words |

Tibetan Proverbs

A braggart has no courage, muddy water has no depth.

Energy | Feelings | Heart | People | Will | Words |

Tom Hayden, fully Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden

There is a power to the street that's part of the democratic process when all else has failed,

Peace | War |

Tom Butler-Bowdon

Most of us cherish freedom, but when we actually get the opportunity to make our own way it can be terrifying.

Feelings | Influence | Pain | Pleasure |

Tom Hayden, fully Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden

The politicians of New York have everything that is necessary to make proper decisions and they will have to live with what happens afterwards. The worst scenario is the politicians covering their eyes and turning it over to the FBI.

Justice | Peace |

Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins

A sense of humor, properly developed, is superior to any religion so far devised.

Contrast | Peace |

William Shakespeare

About the sixth hour; when beasts most graze, birds best peck, and men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper.

God | Peace | Taste | Treason | God |

William Shakespeare

A good heart is the sun and moon, or, rather, the sun, and not the moon; for it shines bright and never changes, but keeps its course truly. King Henry V, Act v, Scene 2

Peace | Sorrow | Story | Will | Woe |

William Shakespeare

All, with one consent, praise new-born gawds, though they are made and moulded of things past; and give to dust, that is a little gilt, more laud than gilt o’erdusted. Henry V, Act iv, Scene 3

Peace |

William Shakespeare

But, alas, to make me a fixèd figure for the time of scorn to point his slow unmoving finger at! Othello, Act iv, Scene 2

Better | Peace |

William Godwin

It is absurd to expect the inclinations and wishes of two human beings to coincide, through any long period of time. To oblige them to act and live together is to subject them to some inevitable potion of thwarting, bickering, and unhappiness.

Absolute | Action | Feelings | Impression | Judgment | Man | Reason | Sacred | Sense | Understanding | Intellect |

William Shakespeare

Come hither, come hither, come hither: here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather.

Better | Conquest | Good | Grace | Hope | Infamy | Looks | Lord | Love | Nobility | Peace | Wavering | Will | Think |

William Shakespeare

Comes at the last, and with a little pin Bores through his castle wall—and farewell king! King Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Heaven | Mortal | Nature | Peace |

William Shakespeare

Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might, who ever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight? As You Like It, act vi, Scene 3

Memory | Peace | War | Will |

William James

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will… and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

Criticism | Darkness | Feelings | Ideas | Right |

William Hamilton, fully Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

A judgment is the mental act by which one thing is affirmed or denied of another.

God | Pardon | Past | Peace | God |

William Gurnall

All the plots of hell and commotions on earth have not so much as shaken God's hand to spoil one letter or line he has been drawing.

God | Man | Peace | Prosperity | God |