This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Quick is the succession of human events: the cares of to-day are seldom the cares of to-morrow; and when we lie down at night, we may safely say to most of our troubles, Ye have done your worst, and we shall meet no more.
I would not have a slave to till my ground, to carry me, to fan me while I sleep, and tremble when I wake, for all the wealth that sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Lights of the world, and stars of human race. And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) the lie that flatters I abhor the most.
Wilkie Collins, fully William Wilkie Collins
If you will look about you (which most people won't do), says Sergeant Cuff, you will see that the nature of a man's tastes is, most times, as opposite as possible to the nature of a man's business.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
A Realtor is an old fashioned Real Estate man with a neck tie. A Real Estate man sold you what you wanted; a Realtor sells you what you don't need. A Real Estate man showed you what you could raise on the land, a Realtor tells you what you can build on it.
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
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Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Our Public men take themselves so serious. It just looks like they are stoop-shouldered from carrying our Country on their backs.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Get this: We have always appreciated Mr. Rogers but because of his droll ill-advised remarks we find our enthusiasm beginning to jell. In other words, I was funny when the joke was on the other fellow, but any about me is ill-advised, and don't jell at all.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Our whole Depression was brought on by gambling, not in the stock market alone but in expanding and borrowing and going in debt, all just to make some money quick.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
There is no race of people in the world that can compete with a senator for talking. If I went to the Senate, I couldn’t talk fast enough to answer roll call.
Feeling good and feeling bad are not necessarily opposites. Both at least involve feelings. Any feeling is a reminder of life. The worst 'feeling' evidently is non-feeling.
Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress