Great Throughts Treasury

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

Challenge

"I suspect that one of the reasons we create fiction is to make sex exciting." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal

"My first real foreign holiday was my honeymoon 20 years ago, and we went to Bali. It was particularly special for that reason, I enjoyed it very much - I had packed music scores and a practice drum pad, suspecting that I would be completely bored, but actually they remained in my case." - Evelyn Glennie, fully Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie

"Society cannot continue to disable themselves through their need to categorize people or make assumptions as to another individual's abilities." - Evelyn Glennie, fully Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie

"I remember hearing in a talk that the more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become." - Ezra Taft Benson

"Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to the earth. The moral life, however, is the fruit he bears; in it his true nature is revealed." - Felix Adler

"Neither women nor linen by candlelight." -