Great Throughts Treasury

"I have ever used to set the last Judgment Day before mine eyes, and so to rule as I shall be judged to answer before a higher judge." - Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

"When I was fair and young, and favor graced me, of many was I sought, their mistress for to be; but I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore, go, go, go seek some otherwhere! Importune me no more!" - Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL

"Men live a moral life, either from regard to the Diving Being, or from regard to the opinion of the people in the world; and when a moral life is practised out of regard to the Divine Being, it is a spiritual life. Both appear alike in their outward form; but in their inward, they are completely different. The one saves a man, but the other does not; for he that leads a moral life out of regard to the Divine Being is led by him, but he who does so from regard to the opinion of people in the world is led by himself." - Emanuel Swedenborg, born Emanujel Swedberg

"I wanted to go to a place where you were important and people listened to what you had to say. Mothering hadn't done that ... and yet ... wouldn't it be ironic if my turf yielded the most important commodity being grown today? A family? A crop of children, seeded by two people, nourished by love, watered by tears, and in eighteen or twenty years harvested into worthwhile human beings to go through the process again." - Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

"People shop for a bathing suit with more care than they do a husband or wife. The rules are the same. Look for something you'll feel comfortable wearing. Allow for room to grow." - Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

"There were really only two men I knew who ever got a laugh out of paying their income taxes. One was cheating the government and getting away with it. The other had a sick sense of humor and would probably have set up a concession stand at the Boston Tea Party and sold sugar cubes and lemon slices." - Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste

"He took the bait like a male and he pulls like a male and his fight has no panic in it. I wonder if he has any plans or if he is just as desperate as I sin?" - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway

"In order to be one, you must first be two." - Esther Perel

"Love is an exercise in selective perception." - Esther Perel

"The mistakes of other people are good teachers." - Estonian Proverbs

"Tell me where is the hope of the man who happens to sixty years without something else that hope." - Étienne Pivert de Senancour

"To live is to hope and wait." - Étienne Pivert de Senancour

"I hold more and more surely to the conviction that the use of masks will be discovered eventually to be the freest solution of the modern dramatist's problem as to how -- with the greatest possible dramatic clarity and economy of means -- he can express those profound hidden conflicts of the mind which the probings of psychology continue to disclose to us." - Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

"The world is dark around us and the prospect seems deepening in gloom. and yet there is light ahead. On the volume of the past in starry characters it is written — the starry legend greets us shining through the misty vistas of the future — that the great and noble shall not perish from among the sons of men, that the truth will triumph in the end, and that even the humblest of her servants may in this become the instrument of unending good. We are aiding in laying the foundations of a mighty edifice, whose completion shall not be seen in our day, no, nor in centuries upon centuries after us. But happy are we, indeed, if we can contribute even the least towards so high a consummation. The time calls for action. Up, then, and let us do our part faithfully and well. And oh, friends, our children's children will hold our memories dearer for the work which we begin this hour." - Felix Adler

"Being a cult figure in one's own lifetime I am afraid is not at all pleasant. However I do not find that it tends to puff one up: in my case at any rate it makes me feel extremely small and inadequate. But even the nose of a very modest idol cannot remain entirely untickled by the sweet smell of incense." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien