This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
The man who works need never be a problem to anyone. Opportunities multiply as they are seized; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities. Wealth is not in making money, but in making the man while he is making money. Production, not destruction, leads to success.
Character | Life | Life | Man | Money | Need | Success | Wealth |
Stewart Udall, Fully Stewart Lee Udall
It is obvious that the best qualities in man must atrophy in a standing-room-only environment.
Freedom springs from within, whether in a man or in a people. To remove disabilities and confer the franchise is not enough. Men must be enabled to grow if they are to exercise their rights with dignity and effect. For this reason the widening of the franchise in democratic countries has always been accompanied or followed by the development of popular education.
Character | Dignity | Education | Enough | Freedom | Man | Men | People | Reason | Rights | Wisdom |
The tongue of a man is the rudder of a ship, but the Universal Lord is its pilot.
Michael Apostolius, or Apostolius Paroemiographus, i.e. Apostolius the proverb-writer
In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is King.
The absolute demonstration of man’s mastery of fate and command of all condition - the victory of man - all men in this racial man, this elder brother of mankind in his triumph over sin, fear and death! But one thing had remained in my mind as necessary to prove to the mass of men to-day man’s absolute supremacy over death in all its forms as an attribute of his oneness with God, with Eternal Life, Perfect Love, Perfect Justice, Omniscience and Omnipotence.
Absolute | Character | Day | Death | Eternal | Fate | Fear | God | Justice | Life | Life | Love | Man | Mankind | Men | Mind | Omnipotence | Omniscience | Oneness | Sin | Fate |
The laughter of man is the contentment of God.
Character | Contentment | God | Laughter | Man |
A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting his neighbor's.