This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
Had I learned to fiddle, I should have done nothing else.
We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the causes of disaster.
Chance | Cowardice | Despise | Ends | Evil | Good | Growth | Indulgence | Infamy | Justice | Luxury | Man | Mind | Peace | Public | Regard | Spirit | Will | Worth | Loss |
Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
I would love to see Mr. (Henry) Ford in there, really. I don't know who started the idea that a President must be a Politician instead of a Business man. A Politician can't run any other kind of business. So there is no reason why he can run the U.S. That's the biggest single business in the World.
Cowardice | Generosity | Wonder |
She would do a man’s work when she needed to, but she lived and died without ever putting on a pair of pants. She wore dresses. Being a widow, she wore them black. Being a woman of her time she wore them long. The girls of her day I think must have been like well wrapped gifts to be opened by their husbands on their wedding night, a complete surprise. 'Well! What's this!?
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
Douglas Adams, fully Douglas Noel Adams
Zaphod felt he was teetering on the edge of madness and wondered if he shouldn't just jump over and have done with it.
Better | Cowardice | Discretion |
Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.