This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
You can never tell what to wish for or what to avoid: so each day mocks you.
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confide thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
When anger swells the heart, the idly-barking tongue restrain.
Leland Stanford, fully Amasa Leland Stanford
Count the day lost, whose low descending sun views from thy hand no worthy action done.
John H. Vincent, fully John Heyl Vincent
I will this day try to live a simple, sincere, and serene life; repelling promptly every thought of discontent, anxiety, discouragement, impurity, and self-seeking; cultivating cheerfulness, magnanimity, charity, and the habit of holy silence; exercising economy in expenditure, carefulness in conversation, diligence in appointed service, fidelity to every trust, and a childlike trust in God.
Anxiety | Anxiety | Character | Charity | Cheerfulness | Conversation | Day | Diligence | Discontent | Fidelity | God | Habit | Life | Life | Magnanimity | Self | Service | Silence | Thought | Trust | Will | Thought |
For all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: "It might have been."
That one who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day in which he lives, needs to reorganize his life. And the sooner the better, for pure enjoyment throughout life has more to do with one's happiness and efficiency than almost any other single element.
Better | Day | Efficiency | Enjoyment | Fun | Life | Life | Wisdom | Happiness |
The tongue of a man is the rudder of a ship, but the Universal Lord is its pilot.
Anahareo, given name Gertrude Moltke Bernard NULL
The tongue is, at the same, the best part of a man, and his worst; with good government, none is more useful; without it, none is more mischievous.
Good | Government | Man | Wisdom |