Great Throughts Treasury

"One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives." - Euripedes NULL

"One man; two loves. No good ever comes of that." - Euripedes NULL

"The fair sex are so conscious to themselves that they have nothing in them which can deserve entirely to engross the whole man, that they heartily despise one who, to use their own expression, is always hanging at their apron-strings." - Eustace Budgell

"The proper business of friendship is to inspire life and courage; and a soul thus supported outdoes itself; whereas if it be unexpectedly deprived of these succors it droops and languishes." - Eustace Budgell

"I was worried about my own vagina. It needed a context of other vaginas-- a community, a culture of vaginas. There's so much darkness and secrecy surrounding them-- like the Bermunda Triangle." -

"No teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding." - Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

"There exists a dialectical relationship between the Promise and its partial fulfillments. The resurrection itself is the fulfillment of something promised and likewise the anticipation of a future." - Gustavo Gutiérrez

"Life is slippery. We all need a loving hand to hold onto." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

"How little it takes to make life unbearable... A pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

"No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

"There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions - they lead to defeat." - Haile Selassie

"A principal source of happiness to them was their shared love for their family...Tolkien was immensely kind and understanding as a father, never shy of kissing his sons in public even when they were grown men, and never reserved in his display of warmth and love." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien