This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.
Man |
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
It is easier to know men in general, than men in particular.
No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.
In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.
Perfect valor is to behave, without witnesses, as one would act were all the world watching.
The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.
Man |
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
It is with certain good qualities as with the senses; those who have them not can neither appreciate nor comprehend them in others.
The principal point of cleverness is to know how to value things just as they deserve.
There is nearly as much ability requisite to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
Woman |
There is no amount of praise which is not heaped on prudence; yet there is not the most insignificant event of which it can make us sure.
There is many a virtuous woman weary of her trade.
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions, it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart, and which we know not ourselves.
Man |
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see.
We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.
In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.
It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Man |
The man who has never been in danger cannot answer for his courage.
Man |