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
It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.
Vincent van Gogh, fully Vincent Willem van Gogh
There is but one Paris and however hard living may be here, and if it became worse and harder even-the French air clears up the brain and does good-a world of good.
Action | Baseness | Circumstances | Existence | Good | Laziness | Longing | Nothing |
Things are not so important; the transcendental truth of things is of value.
Laziness |
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
The advice of the old light without heat, like the sun in the winter.
We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.