This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"I will not stand for being called a woman in my own house." - Evelyn Waugh, fully Evelyn Arthur St. John Waugh
"Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any earthly possession. As a United States citizen I believe it is guaranteed in our heaven-inspired Constitution." - Ezra Taft Benson
"It is not enough to be sincere. We must be right." - Ezra Taft Benson
"One of the marks of an educated man today is to know what not to read--what not to see or what not to listen to." - Ezra Taft Benson
"Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts." - Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
"Let us learn from the lips of death the lessons of life. Let us live truly while we live, live for what is true and good and lasting. And let the memory of our dead help us to do this. For they are not wholly separated from us, if we remain loyal to them. In spirit they are with us. And we may think of them as silent, invisible, but real presences in our households." - Felix Adler
"Theories of what is true have their day. They come and go, leave their deposit in the common stock of knowledge, and are supplanted by other more convincing theories. The thinkers and investigators of the world are pledged to no special theory, but feel themselves free to search for the greater truth beyond the utmost limits of present knowledge. So likewise in the field of moral truth, it is our hope, that men in proportion as they grow more enlightened, will learn to hold their theories and their creeds more loosely, and will none the less, nay, rather all the more be devoted to the supreme end of practical righteousness to which all theories and creeds must be kept subservient. There are two purposes then which we have in view: To secure in the moral and religious life perfect intellectual liberty, and at the same time to secure concert in action. There shall be no shackles upon the mind, no fetters imposed in early youth which the growing man or woman may feel prevented from shaking off, no barrier set up which daring thought may not transcend. And on the other hand there shall be unity of effort, the unity that comes of an end supremely prized and loved, the unity of earnest, morally aspiring persons, engaged in the conflict with moral evil." - Felix Adler
"It is an excellent habit to look at things as so many symbols." - Gustave Flaubert
"Weather, husbands, and sons come as you take them." - Italian Proverbs
"When God will not, the saints cannot." - Italian Proverbs
"When the danger is past God is cheated." - Italian Proverbs
"Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own." - Italian Proverbs
"My final word, before I'm done, is 'Cancer can be rather fun'? provided one confronts the tumor with a sufficient sense of humor. I know that cancer often kills, but so do cars and sleeping pills; and it can hurt till one sweats, so can bad teeth and unpaid debts. A spot of laughter, I am sure, often accelerates one's cure; so let us patients do our bit to help the surgeons make us fit." - J. B. S. Haldane, fully John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
"Dead men are not friends to living men, and give them no gifts." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
"Deserves it I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien