This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
John Chrysostom, fully Saint John Chrysostom
Like the clothes moth prey, as are the envy of our prey.
One must be firm and unchanging with regard to the end but gentle and humble as to the means.
Abundance | Better | Good | Submission | Worth |
Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.
People are made in such a way that even the holiest ones are liable to offend one another.
Peace is worth more than all worldly possessions; in addition, God rewards it even in this life.
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Foundations of morality are like all other foundations; if you dig too much about them, the superstructure will come tumbling down.
Any one may say that the organizations of labor invade or deny liberty to the workmen. But go to the men who worked in the bituminous coal mines twelve, fourteen, sixteen hours a day, for a dollar or a dollar and twenty five cents, and who now work eight hours a day and whose wages have increased 70 per cent. in the past seven years -- go tell those men that they have lost their liberty and they will laugh at you.
Better | Children | Effort | Ignorance | Life | Life | Man | Opportunity | Spirit | Worth |
Is there any religion whose followers can be pointed to as distinctly more amiable and trustworthy than those of any other? If so, this should be enough. I find the nicest and best people generally profess no religion at all, but are ready to like the best men of all religions.
Sam Walton, fully Samuel Moore "Sam" Walton
I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.
Sam Walton, fully Samuel Moore "Sam" Walton
The airplane turned into a great tool for scouting real estate. From up in the air we could check out traffic flows, see which way cities and towns were growing, and evaluate the location of the competition – if there was any. Then we would develop our real estate strategy for that market.
Sam Walton, fully Samuel Moore "Sam" Walton
But we did try to think ahead some when it came to the cities. We never planned on actually going into the cities. What we did instead was build our stores in a ring around a city – pretty far out – and wait for the growth to come to us. This strategy worked practically everywhere.
Associates | Nothing | People | Words | Worth |
Sam Walton, fully Samuel Moore "Sam" Walton
Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
It matters not how a man dies but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
To resist temptation once is not a sufficient proof of honesty. If a servant, indeed, were to resist the continued temptation of silver lying in a window, when he is sure his master does not know how much there is of it, he would give a strong proof of honesty. But this is a proof to which you have no right to put a man. You know there is a certain degree of temptation which will overcome any virtue. Now, in so far as you approach temptation to a man, you do him an injury; and, if he is overcome, you share his guilt.
Gold | Heaven | Life | Life | Love | Mortal | Virtue | Virtue | Worth |