This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The eye of the master fattens the horse.
Experience | Life | Life | Principles | Psychology | Time | Youth | Youth |
The best way to conquer or control a group of people is by encouraging them to fight among themselves rather than allowing them to unite in opposition to the ruling authority.
Where shall a man have a worse friend than he brings from home.
Necessity | Self | Theoretical |
J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly
The Canadian is often a baffled man because he feels different from his British kindred and his American neighbors, sharply refused to be lumped together with either of them, yet cannot make plain his difference.
J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going.
J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
The world shall perish not for lack of wonders, but for lack of wonder
J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
Friendship with Lewis compensates for much, and besides giving constant pleasure and comfort has done me much good from the contact with a man at once honest, brave, intellectual--a scholar, a poet, and a philosopher--and a lover, at least after a long pilgrimage, of Our Lord.
Self |