This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Life is a journey, not a home; a road, not a city of habitation; and the enjoyments and blessings we have are but little inns on the roadside of life, where we may be refreshed for a moment, that we may with new strength press on to the end - to the rest that remaineth for the people of God.
Blessings | God | Journey | Life | Life | Little | People | Rest | Strength | Wisdom |
Here is a simple but powerful rule. Always give people more than they expect to get.
Pearl S. Buck, fully Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu
The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.
Age | Enough | Family | Father | Isolation | Mother | Nature | People | Security | Wisdom | World |
Ludwig Börne, fully Karl Ludwig Börne
We can prevent people from learning, but we can't make them unlearn.
We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living.
Lord Brougham, fully Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.
William J. H. Boetcker, fully William John Henry Boetcker
What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset.
Pearl S. Buck, fully Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu
The basic discovery bout any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and women.
Discovery | Men | People | Relationship | Wisdom | Discovery |
An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned, if the accession be sudden; he is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder; people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
As accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him more sensible, and soon he think himself so.