Great Throughts Treasury

"Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"There is no language so filthy as Spanish. There are words for all the vile words in English and there are other words and expressions that are used only in countries where blasphemy keeps pace with the austerity of religion." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"I do not care where or when I die, but only a placebo that does not sleep bourgeois all their weight over the bodies of the children of the poor and the suffering that the world does not fall asleep with all his weight on the skulls desperate and hard-working." - Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

"I don't know if the Cuban revolution will survive or not. It's difficult to say. But [if it doesn't] . . . don't come looking for me among the refugees in the embassies. I've had that experience, and I'm not ever going to repeat it. I will go out with a machine gun in my hand, to the barricades. . . I'll keep fighting to the end." - Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara

"I Love you so much, I don't care what you think." - Ester and Jerry Hicks

"Who takes care of a widow's 'hole' will inherit the heavenly kingdom." - Estonian Proverbs

"Our Lord gave us the image of a child, not because of the childÂ’s helplessness, but because of the childÂ’s willingness to be led, to be taught, to be blessed." - Eugene Peterson

"The only cure for cynicism is to bring it out behind the scenes. It is a parasite on faith. The reason that many of us donÂ’t ardently believe in the gospel is that we have never given it a rigorous testing, thrown our hard questions at it, faced it with our most prickly doubts." - Eugene Peterson

"When men make gods, there is no God!" - Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

"At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

"I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

"Of course, Socialism is violently denounced by the capitalist press and by all the brood of subsidized contributors to magazine literature, but this only confirms the view that the advance of Socialism is very properly recognized by the capitalist class as the one cloud upon the horizon which portends an end to the system in which they have waxed fat, insolent and despotic through the exploitation of their countless wage-working slaves." - Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs

"Thanks to our cinctures and corsets we have succeeded in making an artificial being out of woman. She is an anomaly, and Nature herself, obedient to the laws of heredity, aids us in complicating and enervating her. We carefully keep her in a state of nervous weakness and muscular inferiority, and in guarding her from fatigue, we take away from her possibilities of development. Thus modeled on a bizarre ideal of slenderness to which, strangely enough, we continue to adhere, our women have nothing in common with us, and this, perhaps, may not be without grave moral and social disadvantages." -

"Evidently the arts, all the visual arts, are becoming more democratic in the worst sense of the word." - Eugenio Montale

"I hate it in friends when they come too late to help." - Euripedes NULL

"You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you." - Euripedes NULL

"It is extremely natural for us to desire to see such our thoughts put into the dress of words, without which indeed we can scarce have a clear and distinct idea of them our selves." - Eustace Budgell

"No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh

"On what basis can we morally resist tyranny? I say to you with all the fervor of my soul that God intended men to be free. Rebellion against tyranny is a righteous cause. It is an enormous evil for any man to be enslaved to any system contrary to his own will. For that reason men, 200 years ago, pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor. No nation which has kept the commandments of God has ever perished, but I say to you that once freedom is lost, only blood – human blood – will win it back." - Ezra Taft Benson

"Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God." - Ezra Taft Benson

"While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and coul the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful." - Ezra Taft Benson

"The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand." - Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

"It is a delicious thing to write, to be no longer yourself but to move in an entire universe of your own creating. Today, for instance, as man and woman, both lover and mistress, I rode in a forest on an autumn afternoon under the yellow leaves, and I was also the horses, the leaves, the wind, the words my people uttered, even the red sun that made them almost close their love-drowned eyes." - Gustave Flaubert

"Pellerin read every work on ‘sthetics, in order to find out the true theory of the Beautiful, convinced that, when he had discovered it, he would produce masterpieces. He surrounded himself with every imaginable auxiliary?drawings, plaster-casts, models, engravings; and he kept searching about, eating his heart out." - Gustave Flaubert

"Never let people see the bottom of your purse or of your mind." - Italian Proverbs

"No one is bound to do impossibilities." - Italian Proverbs

"The man who lives only by hope will die with despair." - Italian Proverbs

"To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge." - J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane

"A thousand years this city has stood, now at the whim of a madman it will fall." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

"All shall love me and despair." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

"And long there he lay, an image of the splendor of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

"As you go down the water,? he said, ?you will find that the trees will fail, and you will come to a barren country. There the River flows in stony vales amid high moors, until at last after many leagues it comes to the tall island of the Tindrock, that we call Tol Brandir. There it casts its arms about the steep shores of the isle, and falls then with a great noise and smoke over the cataracts of Rauros down into the Nindalf, the Wetwang as it is called in your tongue. That is a wide region of sluggish fen where the stream becomes tortuous and much divided. There the Entwash flows in by many mouths from the Forest of Fangorn in the west. About that stream, on this side of the Great River, lies Rohan. On the further side are the bleak hills of the Emyn Muil. The wind blows from the East there, for they look out over the Dead Marshes and the Noman-lands to Cirith Gorgor and the black gates of Mordor." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien