This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Sense, brevity, and point are the elements of a good proverb.
Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus
The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.
Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus
The laboring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present neccessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.
Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home.
Children | Choice | Faith | Good | Important | Man | Need | Patience | Sentiment | Time | Happiness |
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
God | Understanding | Wants | God | Happiness |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes,3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.'
The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools.
The person who gets stuck on trivial prosperity will not attain great prosperity.
But, orderly to end where I begun, our wills and fates do so contrary run that our devices still are overthrown; our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own. Hamlet, Act iii, Scene 2
BENEDICK: What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? BEATRICE: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick? Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come in her presence.