This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
An over-protected eye gets the speck. (Being overly careful or overprotective invites misfortunes.)
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living.
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
Appearance | Time |
Tom Hayden, fully Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden
The peace and justice movement has to expand and not run away from the plight of gang members.
Reform |
In young minds there is commonly a strong propensity to particular intimacies and friendships. Youth, indeed, is the season when friendships are sometimes formed which not only continue through succeeding life, but which glow to the last, with a tenderness unknown to the connections begun in cooler years. The propensity, therefore, is not to be discouraged, though, at the same time, it must be regulated with much circumspection and care. Too many of the pretended friendships of youth are mere combinations in pleasure. They are often founded on capricious likings, suddenly contracted and as suddenly dissolved. Sometimes they are the effect of interested complaisance and flattery on the one side, and of credulous fondness on the other. Such rash and dangerous connections should be avoided, lest they afterwards load us with dishonor.
Motives |
Alack, when once our grace we have forgot, nothing goes right! we would, and we would not.
Peril |
A good man's fortune may grow out at heels. King Lear, Act ii, Scene 2
A falcon, touring in her pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd. Macbeth, Act ii, Scene 4
A league from Epidamnum had we sailed before the always wind-obeying deep Gave any tragic instance of our harm. Comedy of Errors, Act i, Scene 1
A merry heart goes all the day, your sad tires in a mile-a. A Winter’s Tale, Act iv, Scene 3
A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, e'en at the turning o' th' tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets, and play with flowers, and smile upon his fingers' ends, I knew there was but one way; for his nose was as sharp as a pen, and a' babbled of green fields. "How now, Sir John?" quoth I: "what, man! be o' good cheer." So a' cried out—"God, God, God!" three or four times. Now I, to comfort him, bid him a' should not think of God; I hoped there was no need to trouble himself with any such thoughts yet. Henry V, Scene ii
And it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. - (Act I, Scene III).
Will |
And where two raging fires meet together; they do consume the thing that feeds their fury. Though little fire grows great with little wind, yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all. Taming of the Shrew, Act ii, Scene 1
Gentleness | Pity | Will | Forgive |
CLAUDIO: The old ornament of his cheek hath already stuffed tennis-balls. LEONATO: Indeed, he looks younger than he did, by the loss of a beard. Much Ado About Nothing, Act iii, Scene 2
Can’t help it? Nonsense! What we are is up to us. Our bodies are like gardens and our willpower is like the gardener. Depending on what we plant—weeds or lettuce, or one kind of herb rather than a variety, the garden will either be barren and useless, or rich and productive. If we didn’t have rational minds to counterbalance our emotions and desires, our bodily urges would take over. We’d end up in ridiculous situations. Thankfully, we have reason to cool our raging lusts. In my opinion, what you call love is just an offshoot of lust. Othello, Act I, Scene 3
Better | Care | Duty | Fear | Flattery | Little | Lord | Man | Men | Mind | Time | Will | Words | Following |