This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"Patience is the guardian of faith, the preserver of peace, the cherisher of love, the teacher of humility; patience, governs the flesh, strengthens the spirit, sweetens the temper, stifles anger, extinguishes envy, subdues the hand, tramples upon temptation, endures persecutions, consummates martyrdom; patience produces unity in the church, loyalty in the state, harmony in families and societies; she comforts the poor and moderates the rich; she makes us humble in prosperity, cheerful in adversity, unmoved by calumny and reproach; she teaches us to forgive those who have injured us, and to be the first in asking forgiveness of those whom we have injured; she delights the faithful, and invites the unbelieving; she adorns the woman, and approves the man; is loved in a child, praised in a young man, admired in an old man; she is beautiful in either sex and every age." - George Horne
"Calumny confounds a wised man and destroys the oak of his heart." - Saint Jerome, aka Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymous, Hierom or Jerom NULL
"Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms." - Diane De Poitiers
"He whose ruling passion is the love of praise is a slave to everyone who has a tongue for flattery and calumny." - George Eliot, pen name of Mary Ann or Marian Evans
"The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God." - Charles Caleb Colton
"To persevere in one's duty and be silent is the best answer to calumny." - George Washington
"Calumny is a monstrous vice; for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured - first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny." - Herodotus NULL
"Silence never shows itself to so great an advantage as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation, provided that we give no just occasion for them." - Joseph Addison
"He that lends an easy and credulous ear to calumny is either a man of very ill morals or has no more sense and understanding than a child." - Menander, aka Menander of Athens NULL
"Slander is a poison which extinguishes charity, both in the slanderer and in the person who listens to it; so that a single calumny may prove fatal to an infinite number of souls; since it kills not only those who circulate it, but also all those who do not reject it." - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux NULL
"Calumny, the immortal daughter of self-love and idleness." - Voltaire, pen name of François-Marie Arouet NULL
"A man’s reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no proof." - William Hazlitt
"No might nor greatness in mortality can censure ‘scape; back-wounding calumny the whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?" - William Shakespeare
"Something of calumny always sticks." - Nicholas Boileau-Despréaux, sometimes Nicholas Desperaux or Nicolas Boileau
"Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness, and truth in politicians than in partisan preachers. They are not replied to — no chance to reply to them.... The balance wheel of free institutions is free discussion. The pulpit allows no free discussion." - Rutherford B. Hayes, fully Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow, ang'ring itself and others." - William Shakespeare