Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

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Anahareo, given name Gertrude Moltke Bernard NULL

The tongue is, at the same, the best part of a man, and his worst; with good government, none is more useful; without it, none is more mischievous.

Good | Government | Man | Wisdom |

Vittorio Alfieri

There is a silence, the child of love, which expresses everything, and proclaims more loudly that the tongue is able to so.

Love | Silence | Wisdom | Child |

Babylonian Talmud

Slander is called the third tongue because it slays three persons, the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of.

Slander | Wisdom |

Eustace Budgell

Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.

Good | Inclination | Wisdom | Happiness |

William Camden

What the Harte thinketh, the Tongue speaketh.

Wisdom |

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton

There is a time in the lives of most of us when, despondent of all joy in an earthly future, and tortured by conflicts between inclination and duty, we transfer all the passion and fervor of our troubled souls to enthusiastic yearnings for the divine love, looking to its mercy, and taking thence the only hopes that can cheer - the only strength that can sustain us.

Duty | Future | Inclination | Joy | Love | Mercy | Passion | Strength | Time | Wisdom | Yearnings |

Chilon of Lacedemon NULL

The tongue should into be suffered to outrun the mind.

Mind | Wisdom |

George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans

He whose ruling passion is the love of praise is a slave to everyone who has a tongue for flattery and calumny.

Calumny | Flattery | Love | Passion | Praise | Wisdom |

Euripedes NULL

The stillest tongue can be the truest friend.

Friend | Wisdom |

John Florio

The wisdom of a foole is in his tongue, & the tongue of the wise man is hydden in his hart.

Man | Wisdom | Wise |

Patrick Hannay

The wise man's tongue is ever in his heart; the fool's heart's in his tongue.

Heart | Man | Wisdom | Wise |

Thomas Haliburton, fully Thomas Chandler Haliburton, pseudonym "Sam Slick"

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

Authority | Disobedience | Inclination | Wisdom |

James Russell Lowell

He who would be the tongue of this wide land must string his harp with chords of study iron and strike it with a toil-imbrowned hand.

Land | Study | Wisdom |