Great Throughts Treasury

"God knows I am no friend of probability theory, I have hated it from the first moment when our dear friend Max Born gave it birth. For it could be seen how easy and simple it made everything, in principle, everything ironed and the true problems concealed. Everybody must jump on the bandwagon [Ausweg]. And actually not a year passed before it became an official credo, and it still is" - Erwin Schrödinger, fully Erwin Rudolf Josef Alexander Schrödinger

"But land is land, and it's safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers." - Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

"Now look here, Smithers. They's two kind's of stealing. They's the small kind, like what you does, and the big kind, like I does. Fo' de small stealing dey put you in jail soon or late. But fo' de big stealin' dey puts your picture in de paper and yo' statue in de Hall of Fame when you croak. If dey's one thing I learned in ten years on de Pullman cars, listenin' to de white quality talk, it's dat same fact. And when I gits a chance to use it . . . from stowaway to emperor in two years. Dat's goin' some!" - Eugene O'Neill, fully Eugene Gladstone O'Neill

"One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to." - 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

"Old hens make good broth." - Italian Proverbs

"Poor men's money and cowards' weapons are often flourished." - Italian Proverbs

"To the person with little shame, the whole world is his." - Italian Proverbs

"Two women and a goose make a market." - Italian Proverbs

"When a man has fallen into the mire, the more he flounders the more he fouls himself." - Italian Proverbs

"When the cat's away, the mice will play." - Italian Proverbs

"When the fox preaches, take care of yourselves, hens." - Italian Proverbs

"Where shall a man have a worse friend than he brings from home." - Italian Proverbs

"Where the devil cannot put his head he puts his tail." - Italian Proverbs

"Where the hedge is low everyone will cross it." - Italian Proverbs

"Friendship with Lewis compensates for much, and besides giving constant pleasure and comfort has done me much good from the contact with a man at once honest, brave, intellectual--a scholar, a poet, and a philosopher--and a lover, at least after a long pilgrimage, of Our Lord." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien