This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The best rules of rhetoric are, to speak intelligently; speak from the heart; have something to say; say it; and stop when you've done.
Decision | Important | Promptness | Value |
Tommaso Campanella, baptized Giovanni Domenico Campanella
Then the music strikes up, and freely they pardon the offences and faults of the enemy, and after the victories they are kind to them, if it has been decreed that they should destroy the walls of the enemy's city and take their lives.
Action | Boys | Change | Destroy | Hunger | Kill | Nature | People | Science | Thinking | Old |
Hung Tzu-ch'eng, also Hong Zicheng or Hóng Zìchéng, born Hong Yingming
Every one of us is endowed with great mercy and compassion.
Harm | Joy | Mind | Misfortune | Misfortune |
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Errors of theory or doctrine are not so much false statements, as partial statements. - Half a truth received, while the corresponding half is unknown or rejected, is a practical falsehood.
Much of the glory and sublimity of truth is connected with its mystery. - To understand everything we must be as God.
Censure | Praise | Superiority | Wisdom |
Hung Tzu-ch'eng, also Hong Zicheng or Hóng Zìchéng, born Hong Yingming
It is wise to yield a step through life, for yielding a step is really fundamental to improvement. Towards others, a measure of broad-mindedness really brings fortune, for benefiting others if fundamental to benefiting oneself.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer
Think as you work, for in the final analysis, your worth to your company comes not only in solving problems, but also in anticipating them.
Think |
Hung Tzu-ch'eng, also Hong Zicheng or Hóng Zìchéng, born Hong Yingming
Making friends requires a few measures of gallantry; cultivating true character needs a bit of innocence.
Who has no intention to pray has no ears for the call to prayer.
He who wants to kill a dog says that he has urinated against the mosque.
Will |
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
Everything I’ve ever gotten in life is largely due to the fact that I was born in this country, America, at this time with these opportunities for its citizens. It is the primary obligation of our generation to turn over a similar America to our kids.
Competition | Global | Individual |
Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus
On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by maintaining such a balance between produce and consumption as will give the greatest exchangeable value to the results of the national industry.
Opportunity | Value |
Thomas J. Watson, Jr., fully Thomas John Watson, Jr.
Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
Thomas Szasz, fully Thomas Stephen Szasz
[Growing up] is especially difficult to achieve for a child whose parents do not take him seriously; that is, who do not expect proper behavior from him, do not discipline him, and finally, do not respect him enough to tell him the truth.
Action | Freedom | Responsibility | Self |