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

Italian Proverbs

What costs little is little esteemed.

Share

Enough | Humanity | Progress | Science | Will | Think |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

When the tree is down every one runs to it with a hatchet to cut wood.

Share

Respect | Will | World | Respect |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

When wine sinks, words swim.

Share

Atheism | Better | Commitment | God | Life | Life | Reason | Right | Story | Suffering | Truth | Unique | God |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

When the danger is past God is cheated.

Share

Absence | Atheism | Awareness | Awe | Cause | Fortune | Good | Gratitude | Ideas | Important | Insight | Language | Life | Life | Majority | Man | Myth | Need | Nothing | Object | Power | Prosperity | Question | Reality | Religion | Reputation | Reverence | Right | Sacred | Sense | Truth | Understanding | World | Awareness | Understand |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

Who has no courage must have legs.

Share

View Author

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

And so they stood on the walls of the City of Gondor, and a great wind rose and blew, and their hair, raven and golden, streamed out mingling in the air.

Share

Children | Global | Government | Labor | People | Rights | War | Government |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

Who troubles others has no rest himself.

Share

Belief | Compassion | Desire | God | Human race | Love | Means | Race | Will | God |

View Author

J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Share

Appreciation | Art | Faith | Heart | Life | Life | Meaning | Means | Mind | People | Religion | Appreciation | Art |

View Author

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

But it is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place.

Share

Chance | Good | Little | Reason | Rest | Slavery | Will | Woman |

View Author

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

And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she loves only a shadow and a thought: a hope of glory and great deeds, and lands far from the fields of Rohan.

Share

Rights | Slavery | Work | World |

View Author

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

Don't ever laugh at live Dragons, Bilbo you fool!

Share

Change | Reason | Relationship |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

You surround your vineyard with thorns - place doors and locks on your mouth. You will never have a friend if you must have one without faults.

Share

Change | Human nature | Life | Life | Nature | Reality | Religion | Truth | Will |

View Author

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

Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).

Share

Focus | Knowledge | Mind | Reason | Research | Unique | Work | Following |

View Author

J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile.

Share

Experience | God | Human nature | Life | Life | Nature | Sense | God |

View Author

J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

Share

Faith | People | Purpose | Purpose | Reading | Science | Thought | Time | Thought |

View Author

J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly

If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I could do it, you know. I could still do it.

Share

Beginning | Evidence | Life | Life | Meaning | Sense | Worry |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

With art and knavery we live through half the year; with knavery and art we live through the other.

Share

Generosity | Selfishness | Time | Unkindness |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

With the fox one must play the fox.

Share

Absolute | Men | Sacred | Study | Will |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

You are more likely to win if you take the initiative and make an attack rather than preparing to defend yourself.

Share

Faith | God | Light | People | Property | Religion | Will | God |

View Author

Italian Proverbs

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.

Share

Absolute | Atheism | Better | Cause | Critic | Discussion | Evil | Extreme | God | People | Problems | Religion | Science | Theology | Will | Work | World | God |

View Author