This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The wisdom of a foole is in his tongue, & the tongue of the wise man is hydden in his hart.
François Fénelon, fully Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon
God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of his providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for he never gives us two moments together.
God | Providence | Time | Wisdom | Wise |
Incessant change, everlasting innovation, seem to be dictated by the true interests of mankind. But government is the perpetual enemy of change... The wise man is satisfied with nothing.
Change | Enemy | Government | Innovation | Man | Mankind | Nothing | Wisdom | Wise | Government |
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith."
Better | Fear | Happy | Little | Lord | Man | Money | Nature | Nothing | Wants | Will | Wisdom | Wise | Trouble |
Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and the half-wise that are dangerous.
All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
Philip G. Hamerton, fully Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Among the many advantages of experience, one of the most valuable is that we come to know the range of our own powers, and if we are wise we keep contentedly within them.
Experience | Wisdom | Wise |