This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Not since Manhattan Island was sold for $24 has there been so much dirt available for so little money as now.
The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the tendency of our evil nature and by the power of habit, which holds us as by a destiny.
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to one in deep sorrow, "I did not come to comfort you; God only can do that; but I did come to say how deeply and tenderly I feel for you in your affliction".
Tristan Bernard, born Paul Bernard
In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.
Devil |
If a cat wants to eat her kittens, she'll say that they look like mice.
Thomas J. Watson, fully Thomas John Watson, Sr.
So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because that's where you will find success. On the far side of failure.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.
A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,— Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty, And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it. The Taming of the Shrew. Act v. Sc. 2.
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
Have nothing in your home that you do not know to be useful and believe to be beautiful.
Now I see our lances are but straws, our strength as weak, our weakness past compare, that seeming to be most which we indeed least are.
Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!
Devil |
O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year. The Merry Wives of Windsor (Anne Page at III, iv)
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Profaneness is a brutal vice. - He who indulges in it is no gentleman. - I care not what his stamp may be in society, or what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts. - Despite all his refinement, the light and habitual taking of God's name in vain, betrays a coarse and brutal will.