This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
To save your world you asked this man to die: Would this man, could he see you now, ask why?
John H. Aughey, fully John Hill Aughey
This is one of the sad conditions of life, that experience is not transmissible. No man will learn from the suffering of another; he must suffer himself.
Experience | Life | Life | Man | Suffering | Will | Wisdom | Learn |
Life is the acceptance of responsibilities or their evasion; it is a business of meeting obligations or avoiding them. To every man the choice is continually being offered, and by the manner of his choosing you may fairly measure him.
Acceptance | Business | Character | Choice | Evasion | Life | Life | Man | Business |
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
To abstain from sin when a man cannot sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain, pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Character | Inferiority | Man | Right | Superiority | Wrong |
Every man has obligation which belong to his station. Duties extend beyond obligations, and direct the affections, desires, and intentions, as well as the actions.
Character | Man | Obligation |