This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Today not even a universal fire could make the torrential poetic production of our time disappear. But it is exactly a question of production, that is, of hand-made products which are subject to the laws of taste and fashion.
Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.
I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief
Friend | Prosperity | Will |
Happiness, greatness, pride-nothing is secure, nothing keeps.
At the inner circle of the disciples and friends of the Cross - composed mostly of men representing the official culture (school, universities, academies) I never belonged. But instead, I breathed the air of other environments where the teaching of the Cross had penetrated inland perhaps indirect.
Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, a herb most bruised is woman.
Will |
Evelyn Glennie, fully Evelyn Elizabeth Ann Glennie
I just assumed the world was full of solo percussionists. I couldn't find sticks or music or anything where I was, but that was expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing.
Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.' 'I don't think he is,' said Julia. 'I don't know that I like nice people
Everett Dirksen, fully Everett McKinley Dirksen
I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
It was dead contrary to the common experience of such encounters, when time is found to have built its own defensive lines, camouflaged vulnerable points, and laid a field of mines across all but a few well-trodden paths, so that, more often than not, we can only signal to one another from either side of the tangle of wire.
Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
There's only one great evil in the world today. Despair.
Will |