This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Rutherford B. Hayes, fully Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
There is no possible source of evil except good.
Saint Isaac of Nineveh, also Isaac the Syrian, Isaac of Qatar and Isaac Syrus NULL
What is so bitter and vehement as the torment of love? I mean, those who have become conscious that they have sinned against love suffer greater torment from this than from any fear of punishment. For the sorrow caused in the heart by sin against love is more poignant than any torment.
Compassion | Family | Harm | Heart | Mercy | Prayer | Receive | Sorrow | Tears |
I implore God to give you His Spirit, to perfect your vocation and to pour out His blessings on all the Company, so that it may fulfill His holy will in this world with such fidelity that it may one day deserve to enjoy His glory in the next.
Sallust, full name Carus Valerius Sailustius Crispus NULL
It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
Defeat |
Saki, pen name for Hector Hugh Munro or H.H. Munro NULL
The clock struck eleven with the respectful unobtrusiveness of one whose mission in life is to be ignored.
Family |
The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.
At the outset, I want to say that the organized labor movement of America is not a know-nothing organization. It does not want to erect a wall around the borders of our country and keep everybody else out; it does not declare America for Americans, or for those who are now within American borders. But on the other hand it is equally true that the thinking workingmen of the United States have . . . come to the conclusion that there must be some better regulation and some limitation.
Defeat | Improvement | Love | Order | Position | Question | Sentiment | Will | Friends |
Sam Walton, fully Samuel Moore "Sam" Walton
The airplane turned into a great tool for scouting real estate. From up in the air we could check out traffic flows, see which way cities and towns were growing, and evaluate the location of the competition – if there was any. Then we would develop our real estate strategy for that market.
It may be, as you say, the enforced demand for the closed (union) shop is one of the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of industrial peace. But the fact back of this fact . . . is that the trade union is not formed for peace. It is organized for protection -- with peace, of course, where possible. But peace, only, may be death.
To church in the morning, and there saw a wedding in the church, which I have not seen many a day; and the young people so merry one with another, and strange to see what delight we married people have to these poor fools decoyed into our condition, every man and woman gazing and smiling at them.
Ends | Family | God | Melancholy | Nothing | Public | Thinking | God |
The brave man is an inspiration to the weak, and compels them, as it were, to follow him.
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
All giving is asking, and all asking is an asking for love.