This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
If there is a country in the world where concord, according to common calculation, would be least expected, it is America. Made up as it is of people from different nations, accustomed to different forms and habits of government, speaking different languages, and more different in their modes of worship, it would appear that the union of such a people was impracticable; but by the simple operation of constructing government on the principles of society and the rights of man, every difficulty retires, and all the parts are brought into cordial unison. There the poor are not oppressed, the rich are not privileged. Industry is not mortified by the splendid extravagance of a court rioting at its expense. Their taxes are few, because their government is just: and as there is nothing to render them wretched, there is nothing to engender riots and tumults.
Ch'ien, fully T'ao Chien or Tao Qian, aka Tao Yuan-ming NULL
Just surrender to the cycle of things, Give yourself to the waves of the Great Change, And when it is time to go, then simply go, Without any unnecessary fuss
Thomas Macaulay, fully Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay
A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his notions about it may be vague and inaccurate; but speak he must. And if he is a man of ability, of tact, and of intrepidity, he soon find that, even under such circumstances, it is possible to speak successfully.
Tiberius, fully Tiberius Claudius Nero NULL
I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.
Self |
The ancient tradition that the world will be consumed in fire at the end of six thousand years is true, as I have heard from hell. For the cherub with his flaming sword is hereby commanded to leave his guard at tree of life, and when he does, the whole creation will be consumed, and appear infinite, and holy whereas it now appears finite and corrupt.
My native place was [alive] with old legends, tales, traditions, customs and superstitions; so that in my early youth, even beyond the walls of my own humble roof, they met me in every direction.
Better | Confidence | Education | Esteem | Father | Heart | Imagination | Integrity | Language | Legends | Man | Memory | Mind | Mother | Peculiarity | People | Piety | Present | Rank | Receive | Spirit | Will | Youth | Youth | Blessed | Circumstance | Old |
A life all turbulence and noise may seem, to him that leads it, wise and to be praised but wisdom is a pearl with most success sought in still water, and beneath clear skies.
Honesty |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
A tax paid on the day you buy is not as tough as asking you for it the next year when you are broke.
Perseverance | Will |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
I am not a member of any organized party - I am a Democrat.
It is a poor species of human being which this grim vision conjures up before our eyes: 'fragmentary and disintegrated' man, the end product of growing mechanization, specialization, and functionalization, which decompose the unity of human personality and dissolve it in the mass, an aborted form of Homo sapiens created by a largely technical civilization, a race of spiritual and moral pygmies lending itself willingly--indeed gladly, because that way lies redemption--to use as raw material for the modern collectivist and totalitarian mass state.
Consequences | Consideration | Sacrifice | Sense | Society | Will | Society |
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
Biggest problem? Well, I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life. MONEY. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. From the very start it was a problem. Getting the money to open Disneyland. About seventeen million it took. And we had everything mortgaged including my personal insurance.
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.
Walt Whitman, fully Walter "Walt" Whitman
I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots,
In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
At the core of every moral code there is a picture of human nature, a map of the universe, and a version of history. To human nature (of the sort conceived), in a universe (of the kind imagined), after a history (so understood), the rules of the code apply.
Power |
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
Our stay-put behavior reflects our view that the stock market serves as a relocation center at which money is moved from the active to the patient.
Competition | Industry | Money |
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
The advice "you never go broke taking a profit" is foolish.
Ability |
Warren Buffett, fully Warren Edward Buffett, aka Oracle of Omaha
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.