This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
A difference of opinion, though in the merest trifles, alienates little minds.
Maya Angelou, born Marguerite Annie Johnson
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.
Mitch Albom, fully Mitchell David "Mitch" Albom
The only difference between martial and marital is where you put the `i’.
What is wrong with difference is not difference, but man's reluctance to allow and encourage it, and to cultivate it creatively.
The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.
Philosophy | Gossip |
Paramahansa Yogananda, born Mukunda Lal Ghosh
The metaphysician looks at truth from within to without. That is why they clash. But realized souls who understand science as well as metaphysics find no difference at all. They see the parallelism between science and truth because they see the whole picture.
Looks | Metaphysics | Science | Truth | Understand |
Oscar Wilde, pen name for Fingal O'Flahertie Wills
The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Plutarch, named Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus after becoming Roman citizen NULL
All warriors may see an example of their common frailty, and learn a lesson that there is nothing durable or constant? For what time can men select to think themselves secure, when that of victory itself forces us more than any to dread our own fortune?
Dread | Example | Fortune | Lesson | Men | Nothing | Time | Learn | Think |
The first and best victory is to conquer self; to be conquered by self is of all things the most shameful and vile.
Self |
Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.
Men |
The world has a way of giving what is demanded of it. If you are frightened and look for failure and poverty, you will get them, no matter how hard you may try to succeed. Lack of faith in yourself, in what life will do for you, cuts you off from the good things of the world. Expect victory and you make victory. Nowhere is this truer than in business life, where bravery and faith bring both material and spiritual rewards.
Bravery | Business | Failure | Faith | Giving | Good | Life | Life | Poverty | Will | World | Failure | Business |
That is ever the difference between the wise and the unwise: the latter wonders at what is unusual; the wise man wonders at the usual.
The only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.
The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory to both sides.