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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"First stanza: Millions now living will never die. Second stanza: No more war." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

"Of three things the devil makes a salad: advocate's tongues, notaries' fingers, and a third that shall be nameless." - Italian Proverbs

"Thank you, pretty pussy, was the death of my cat." - Italian Proverbs

"That which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger." - Italian Proverbs

"The fox advised the others to cut off their tails, because he had left his own in the trap." - Italian Proverbs

"Today me, tomorrow thee." - Italian Proverbs

"Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and L£thien" - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

"And Gandalf said: 'This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order it's beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much has been saved, much must now pass away; and the power of the Three Rings also is ended. And all the lands that you see, and those that lie round about them, shall be dwellings of Men. For the time comes of the Dominion of Men, and the Elder Kindred shall fade or depart." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien