Great Throughts Treasury

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Russian Proverbs

Your tongue will get you to Kiev.

Wife |

Rutherford B. Hayes, fully Rutherford Birchard Hayes

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.

Family | Wife |

Sacha Guitry, fully Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry

He does not seem intelligent enough to be crazy.

Wife |

Bette Davis, Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis

I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.

Love | Man | Marriage | Wife | Will | Woman | Happiness | Understand |

Saint Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone NULL

The secret consciousness of duty well performed; the public voice of praise that honors virtue, and rewards it; all these are yours.

Children | Eternal | Father | Hate | Life | Life | Lord | Mother | Receive | Rule | Wife | Will | Wishes |

Sam Levenson

I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

Wife |

Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson

A man is very apt to complain of the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.

Better | Good | Man | Wife |

Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson

Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.

Happy | Wife | Wishes |

Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson

No one is much pleased with a companion who does not increase, in some respect, their fondness for themselves.

Better | Man | Money | Wife |

Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Age | Care | Childhood | Children | Danger | Treachery | Wife | Wise | Danger | Friends |

Samuel Pepys

I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

Opportunity | Wife | Will |

Shrimad Bhagavatam, or the Bhâgavata Purâna, Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, or Bhāgavata NULL

Sons ought to render service to their father exactly to this extent. One should obey the command of his father or spiritual master with due deference, saying, Yes, sir.

Illusion | Intelligence | Knowledge | Soul | Wife |

Samuel Pepys

Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

Man | People | Wife |

Samuel Pepys

Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.

Man | People | Wife |

Samuel Pepys

Thus ends this year ... It is true we have gone through great melancholy because of the great plague, and I put to great charges by it, by keeping my family long at Woolwich, and myself and another part of my family, my clerks, at my charge at Greenwich ... But now the plague is abated almost to nothing ... But many of such as I know very well, dead. Yet to our great joy, the town fills apace, and shops begin to open again. Pray God continue the plague's decrease - for that keeps the Court away from the place of business, and so all goes to wrack as to public matters, they at this distance not thinking of it.

Good | Wife |

Samuel Richardson

A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.

Wife |

Samuel Richardson

Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.

Understanding | Wife | Afraid |

Samuel Richardson

A man may keep a woman, but not his estate.

Better | Mother | Wife |

Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Happy | Man | Wife | Wishes |