This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Edward Thorndike, fully Edward Lee "Ted" Thorndike
Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.
Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought.
Conversation | Thought | Learn |
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Conspiracy | Conversation | Diversion | Ends | People | Public |