This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"Like gluttony or drunkenness, hatred seems an agreeable vice when you practice it yourself, but disgusting when observed in others." - William Henry Irwin, aka "Will"
"Certain sins manifests themselves as their mirror opposites which the sinner is able to persuade himself are virtues. Thus Gluttony can manifest itself as Daintiness, Lust as Prudery, Sloth and Senseless Industry, Envy as Hero Worship." - W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
"Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, and a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet." - Marion LeRoy Burton
"Gluttony is an abomination; therein is the quality of a beast." - Ke'gemni NULL
"Gluttony kills more than the sword, and is the kindler of all evils." - Francesco Patrizzi de Cherso, also Franciscus Patricius or Frane Petrić
"Gluttony is not a secret vice." - Orson Welles, fully George Orson Welles
"All the seven deadly sins are self destroying, morbid appetites, but in their early stages at least, lust and gluttony, avarice and sloth know some gratification, while anger and pride have power, even though that power eventually destroys itself. Envy is impotent, numbed with fear, never ceasing in its appetite, and it knows no gratification, but endless self torment. It has the ugliness of a trapped rat, which gnaws its own foot in an effort to escape." - Angus Wilson, fully Sir Angus Frank Johnstone Wilson
"Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities, and the fountain of all our diseases. As a lamp is choked by a superabundance of oil, a fire extinguished by excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by intemperate diet." - Edmund Burke
"It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood." - Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
"We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland." - Theodore Parker
"What sad faces one always sees in the asylum for orphans! - It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head." - Theodore Parker
"The freedom can be rightly defined as a lack of all obstacles to the action, because they don’t contain in the nature or in the inner qualities of acting person." - Thomas Hobbes
"Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs." - Edwin Percy Whipple