This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.
There hardly can be a greater difference between any two men, than there too often is, between the same man, a lover and a husband.
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
Were a man not to marry a second time, it might be concluded that his first wife had given him a disgust to marriage; but by taking a second wife, he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.
Desire | Diligence | Disease | Envy | Money | Nothing | Regard | Respect | Torture | Wealth | Wise | Respect | Value |
Shrimad Bhagavatam, or the Bhâgavata Purâna, Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, or Bhāgavata NULL
Living beings who are entangled in the complicated meshes of birth and death can be freed immediately by even unconsciously chanting the holy name of Kåñëa, which is feared by fear personified.
Our subconscious minds have no sense of humor, play no jokes and cannot tell the difference between reality and an imagined thought or image. What we continually think about eventually will manifest in our lives.
Ability | Accuracy | Change | Future | Life | Life | Need | Present | Time | Will | Wise | World |
If sacrifices are performed without first propitiating the Sun, then the mind becomes attached to sacrifices in which fire is kindled by the rubbing of the pieces of fire-wood, the oblations are offered to the deity Vayu and the soma juice is drunk excessively.
Simeon ben Azai, sometimes Ben Azai
Who is an honorable man? He who honors his fellow man; As is stated (I Samuel 2:30): "For to those who honor me, I accord honor; those who scorn me shall be demeaned.
Wise |
Arthur Helps, fully Sir Arthur Helps
It is a weak thing to tell half your story, and then ask your friend's advice--a still weaker thing to take it.
Arthur Helps, fully Sir Arthur Helps
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Counsel | Doubt | Men | Need | Wisdom | Wise | Words | Counsel |
Arthur Conan Doyle, fully Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle
However, wretch as he was, he was still living under the shield of British law, and I have no doubt, Inspector, that you will see that, though that shield may fail to guard, the sword of justice is still there to avenge.
Consciousness | Little | Nature | Wise |
Gregory Nazianzen, aka Saint Gregory of Nazianzus or Gregory the Theologian
Of this healing we, who are set over others, are the ministers and fellow-laborers; for whom it is a great thing to recognize and heal their own passions and sicknesses: or rather, not really a great thing, only the viciousness of most of those who belong to this order has made me say so: but a much greater thing is the power to heal and skillfully cleanse those of others, to the advantage both of those who are in want of healing and of those whose charge it is to heal.
Wise | Instruction |
Ignatius Loyola, aka Saint Ignatius of Loyola
To give, and not to count the cost to fight, and not to heed the wounds, to toil, and not to seek for rest, to labor, and not to ask for any reward, save that of knowing that we do thy will.
Since the universe must contain millions of appropriate planets, consciousness in some form - but not with the paired eyes and limbs, and the brain built of neurons in the only example we know - may evolve frequently. But if only one origin of life in a million ever leads to consciousness, then Martian bacteria most emphatically do not imply Little Green Men.)
Appearance | Arrogance | Consciousness | Evolution | History | Humanity | Inevitable | Means | Myth | Progress | Revolution | Science | Thinking | Time | Wise |
Stendhal, pen name of Marie Henn Beyle or Marie-Henri Beyle NULL
After moral poisoning, one requires physical remedies and a bottle of champagne.