This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
One is received according to one's coat; one is dismissed according to one's brain.
Saint Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone NULL
We may know with certainty that nothing belongs to us except our vices and sins.
John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom
If then we have angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.
Acquaintance | Attention | Earnestness | God | Hurry | Man | Reading | Space | Tomorrow | Will | God |
Salomon ibn Gabirol, aka Solomon ben Judah or Avicebron
All men have one entrance into life, and the like going out
Art has no end in view save the emphasizing and recording in the most effective way some strongly felt interest or affection.
Man |
Sam Ervin, fully Samuel James "Sam" Ervin, Jr.
I'll have you understand I am running this court, and the law hasn't got a damn thing to do with it!
Sam Ervin, fully Samuel James "Sam" Ervin, Jr.
If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were in effect breaking into the home of every citizen of the United States. And if these allegations prove to be true, what they were seeking to steal was not the jewels, money or other precious property of American citizens, but something much more valuable - their most precious heritage: the right to vote in a free election.
Salvador de Madariaga, fully Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo
The criminal excesses of unlimited capitalistic liberty had soon been checked thanks to the unlimited liberty of the press.
Yes, but keep copies. -- When his secretary asked him if she should destroy files that were over ten years old.
Money | People | Television |
One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.
Reason |
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
We hail with deep satisfaction the arrival of an embassy from our mother country charged with the noble duty of proposing a treaty of perpetual peace between the two great political divisions of the English-speaking people.
Attainment | Better | Hope | Life | Life | Love | Man | People | Wealth | Work |
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.
Shrimad Bhagavatam, or the Bhâgavata Purâna, Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, or Bhāgavata NULL
When the mind is allowed to think of sense gratification continuously, it becomes the cause of our material bondage. If our mind is simply filled with sense gratification, even though we want Krsna consciousness, by continuous practice we cannot forget the subject matter of sense gratification.
Thus ends this year ... It is true we have gone through great melancholy because of the great plague, and I put to great charges by it, by keeping my family long at Woolwich, and myself and another part of my family, my clerks, at my charge at Greenwich ... But now the plague is abated almost to nothing ... But many of such as I know very well, dead. Yet to our great joy, the town fills apace, and shops begin to open again. Pray God continue the plague's decrease - for that keeps the Court away from the place of business, and so all goes to wrack as to public matters, they at this distance not thinking of it.