This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone." - William Shakespeare
"A few weeks ago he said to me, completely ou of nowhere, 'You good friend to me, Liss. Loyal friend.' Then he sighed, stared off into space and added mournfully, ' Not like Sharon.' Who the hell is Sharon? What did she do to him? When I tried asking him about it, he would give me no answer. Acted suddenly like he didn't know who I was even referring to. As if I were the one who'd brought up that thieving hussy Sharon in the first place.)" - Elizabeth Gilbert
"Honey, I'm Brazilian south. I can spend ten years with broken because of a woman I have not even kissed heart." - Elizabeth Gilbert
"My restlessness makes me a far better day-to-day traveler than he will ever be. I am infinitely curious and almost infinitely patient with mishaps, discomforts, and minor disasters. So I can go anywhere on the planet—that’s not a problem. The problem is that I just can’t live anywhere on the planet." - Elizabeth Gilbert
"The four virtues a person needs in order to be safe and happy in life: intelligence, friendship, strength and (I love this one) poetry." - Elizabeth Gilbert
"Then, I will be a real Italian girl, instead of a total American who still can't hear someone across the street to his friend Marco without wanting instinctively to yell back Polo!" - Elizabeth Gilbert
"Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies." - Elizabeth Gilbert
"Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years--I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue." - Elizabeth Gilbert
"A mind always in contact with children and servants, whose aspirations and ambitions rise no higher than the roof that shelters it, is necessarily dwarfed in its proportions." - Elizabeth Cady Stanton
"Recorded history starts with a patriarchal revolution. Let it continue with the matriarchal counterrevolution that is the only hope for the survival of the human race." - Elizabeth Gould Davis
"The misnamed "feminine" woman, so admired by her creator, man — the woman who is acquiescent in her inferiority and who has swallowed man's image of her as his ordained helpmate and no more — is in reality the "masculine" woman. The truly feminine woman "cannot help burning with that inner rage that comes from having to identify with her exploiter's negative image of her," and having to conform to her persecutor's idea of femininity and its man-decreed limitations." - Elizabeth Gould Davis
"Though God hath raised me high, yet this I account the glory of my reign, that I have reigned with your loves." - Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL
"Angelique, with both hands open, lying limply on her knees, was giving herself. And Felicien remembered the evening on which she had run barefoot through the grass, so adorable that he had pursued her, and whispered in her ear, I love you. And he understood full well that only now had she replied, with the same cry, I love you. And he understood full well that only now had she replied, with the same cry, I love you, the eternal cry that had finally emerged from her wide-open heart. I love you... Take me, carry me away, I am yours." - Emile Zola
"And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day." - Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell
"I care nothing in comparison with papa. And I'll never -- never--oh, never while I have my senses, do an act or say a word to vex him. I love him better than myself, Ellen; and I know it by this: I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be: that proves I love him better than myself." - Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell
"You fight against that devil for love as long as you may; when the time comes, not all the angels in heaven shall save him!" - Emily Brontë, fully Emily Jane Brontë, aka pseudonym Ellis Bell
"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass." - Emma Goldman
"The particular article ought in my opinion to be treated with absolute contempt. It is too vile to touch." - Emma Lazarus
"Every one's faults are not written in their foreheads." - English Proverbs
"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other." - English Proverbs
"But some emotions don't make a lot of noise. It's hard to hear pride. Caring is real faint - like a heartbeat. And pure love why, some days it's so quiet, you don't even know it's there." - Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
"I never leaf through a copy of National Geographic without realizing how lucky we are to live in a society where it is traditional to wear clothes." - Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair." - Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
"It is upsetting to many parents that their teen-agers introduce them to their friends as encyclopedia salesmen who are just passing through ... if they introduce them at all. I have some acquaintances who hover in dark parking lots, enter church separately and crouch in furnace rooms so their teen-agers will not be accused of having parents." - Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
"My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint." - Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
"Not only can it think, but it can reason and compromise," said the Creator." - Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
"The angel shook her head slowly and said. "Six pairs of hands.... no way."" - Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
"The bad times I can handle. It's the good times that drive me crazy. When is the other shoe going to drop?" - Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
"Throughout the years I have set up my own rules about eating food: Never eat anything you can't pronounce. Beware of food that is described as, Some Americans say it tastes like chicken." - Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
"You were our first miracle. You were the genesis of a marriage, the fulfillment of love, the promise of our infinity...You were the beginning." - Erma Bombeck, fully Erma Louise Bombeck, born Erma Fiste
"America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds." - Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
"At the lowest stage, the rude--we may say animal--phase of prehistoric primitive man, is the "ape-man," who, in the course of the tertiary period, has only to a limited degree raised himself above his immediate pithecoid ancestors, the anthropoid apes. Next come successive stages of the lowest and simplest kind of culture, such as only the rudest of still existing primitive peoples enable us in some measure to conceive. These "savages" are succeeded by peoples of a low civilization, and from these again, by a long series of intermediate steps, we rise little by little to the more highly civilized nations. To these alone--of the twelve races of mankind only to the Mediterranean and Mongolian--are we indebted for what is usually called "universal history." This last, extending over somewhat less than six thousand years, represents a period of infinitesimal duration in the long millions of years of the organic world's development." - Ernst Haeckel, full name Ernst Heinrich Phillip August Haeckel
"Who suffers will have no regrets." - Estonian Proverbs
"A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn." - Ethiopian Proverbs
"Every writer, like everybody else, thinks he's living through the crisis of the ages. To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most." - Eudora Welty
"I live in gratitude to my parents for initiating me--and as early as I begged for it, without keeping me waiting--into knowledge of the word, into reading and spelling, by way of the alphabet. They taught it to me at home in time for me to begin to read before starting school." - Eudora Welty
"Without stopping to be sorry for her head he crammed kisses in her mouth, and she wound her arms up around his own drenched head and returned him kiss for kiss." - Eudora Welty
"My grandfather, the Senator [power broker Thomas Gore of Oklahoma], he was magnificent. He loathed the human race. He was extraordinary. He always said if there was another race, he would join it. And his grandson inherited much of his philosophy." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
"A good name is still to be preferred over great riches. Especially it is to be preferred to the appearance of riches, acquired with nothing down and nothing to pay for 2 months." - Ezra Taft Benson
"Occasionally, we receive questions as to the propriety of Church members receiving government assistance instead of Church assistance. Let me restate what is a fundamental principle. Individuals, to the extent possible, should provide for their own needs. Where the individual is unable to care for himself, his family should assist. Where the family is not able to provide, the Church should render assistance, not the government." - Ezra Taft Benson
"Tonight I will speak to you about our beloved republic and the inspired agents whom God raised up to establish the foundation upon which our liberty rests. . . . I speak to you as members of the “household of faith,” the Lord’s true church, and remind you of your solemn charge to uphold, sustain, and defend the kingdom of God. The destiny of America was divinely decreed. The events that established our great nation were foreknown to God and revealed to prophets of old. As in an enacted drama, the players who came on the scene were rehearsed and selected for their parts. Their talent, abilities, capacities, and weaknesses were known before they were born." - Ezra Taft Benson
"An ideal is a port toward which we resolve to steer. We may not reach it. The mere fact that our goal is definitely located does not suffice to conduct us thither. But surely we shall thus stand a better chance of making port in the end than if we drift about aimlessly, the sport of winds and tides, without having decided in our own minds in what direction we ought to bend our course. The moral law is the expression of our inmost nature, and when we live in consonance with it we feel that we are living out our true being." - Felix Adler
"Isn?t ?not to be bored? one of the principal goals of life?" - Gustave Flaubert
"There exists a dialectical relationship between the Promise and its partial fulfillments. The resurrection itself is the fulfillment of something promised and likewise the anticipation of a future." - Gustavo Gutiérrez
"Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"The New Logic ? it would be nice if it worked. Ergo, it will work." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
"Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love." - Hamilton Wright Mabie
"While there's life there's hope." - Italian Proverbs