This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.
J. H. Rhodes, fully John Harold Rhodes
Be wary of extremes: the green and the over-ripe fruit causes the worst pain.
Friedrich Schiller, fully Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
The aim that comedy has in view is the same as that of the highest destiny of man, and this consists in liberating himself from the influence of violent passions, and taking a calm and lucid survey of all that surrounds him, and also of his own being, and of seeing everywhere occurrence rather than fate or hazard, and ultimately rather smiling at the absurdities than shedding tears and feeling anger at sight of the wickedness of man.
Anger | Character | Comedy | Destiny | Fate | Hazard | Influence | Man | Tears | Wickedness | Fate |
When anger swells the heart, the idly-barking tongue restrain.
John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury
Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind.
Josiah Stamp, fully Sir Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp of Shortlands
It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.
Madame Swetchine, fully Anne Sophie Swetchine née Sophia Petrovna Soïmonov or Soymanof
Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.
Anger | Character | Grief | Humility | Nothing | Pride | Tears |