This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Terence, full Latin name Publius Terentius Afer NULL
It is better to bind your children to you by respect and gentleness than by fear.
Better | Children | Fear | Gentleness | Respect | Wisdom | Respect |
How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.
Earle Birney, fully Earle Alfred Birney
Love rests on the preservation of our species; art is our instinctive instrument for the preservation of the individual, of the unique man, woman and child, and the means of evolution of us all into something able and worthy of survival on the living earth.
Art | Earth | Evolution | Individual | Love | Man | Means | Survival | Unique | Woman | Art |
Henri Bergson, aka Henri-Louis Bergson
An innate knowledge, or rather an acquired ignorance, suggests to it straightaway the step to be taken, the decisive act, the unanswerable word. Yet effort remains indispensable, endurance and perseverance likewise. But they come of themselves, they develop of their own accord, in a soul acting and acted upon, whose liberty coincides with the divine activity.
Effort | Endurance | Ignorance | Indispensable | Knowledge | Liberty | Perseverance | Soul |
Louis K. Anspacher, fully Louis Kannan Anspacher
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
Dependence | Man | Marriage | Obligation | Woman |
Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL
It has been women who have breathed gentleness and care into the harsh progress of mankind.
Care | Gentleness | Mankind | Progress |
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, a.k.a. Charlotte Anna (nee Perkins), Charlotte Perkins Stetson
It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating; but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark place, is always guarded, protected, directed, and restrained will become inevitably narrowed and weakened by it. The woman is narrowed by the home, and the man is narrowed by the woman.
Golda Meir, originally named Goldie Mabovitch, later Goldie Myerson
To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.
A beautiful woman who is pleasing to men is good only for frightening the fish when she falls into the water.
Teresa of Avila, aka Saint Teresa of Jesus, baptized as Teresa Sánchez de Cepeda y Ahumada NULL
Let nothing disturb thee, nothing affright thee; all things are passing: God never changeth; patient endurance attaineth to all things; who God possesseth in nothing is wanting; alone God sufficeth.