This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Those who are greedy and avaricious end up in misery. Because of their evil deeds they are short lived.
If you give way, you will instantly have to meet some greater demand, as having been frightened into obedience in the first instance; while a firm refusal will make them clearly understand that they must treat you more as equals.
Hope | Humanity | Innocence | Men | Power | Revenge | Salvation | Vengeance |
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive. The Life of King Henry the Fifth (King Henry at IV, iii)
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Promise | Selfishness |
Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen
Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.
What is the point of Roaming the world When it's the Same Everywhere misery?
Books | Love | People | Selfishness |
SILVIUS: How many actions most ridiculous/Hast thou been drawn to by thy fantasy? CORIN: Into a thousand that I have forgotten. SILVIUS: O, thou didst then ne'er love so heartily! If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved: or if thou hast not sat as I do now, wearying thy hearer in thy mistress' praise, thou hast not loved.
In love as in speculation there is much filth; in love also, people think only of their own gratification; yet without love there would be no life, and the world would come to an end.
Despair | Destroy | Effort | Good | Honor | Innocence | Life | Life | Man | Men | Office | Order | People | Public | Society | War | Society |
You should never "put up" with anything. You should never be willing to accept less than Health, Harmony, and Happiness. These things are your Divine Right as the sons and daughters of God, and it is only a bad habit, unconscious, as a rule, that causes you to be satisfied with less. In the depths of his being man always feels intuitively that there is a way out of his difficulties if only he can find it, and his natural instincts all point in the same direction.
God | Object | Power | Purpose | Purpose | Selfishness | Will | Worship | God |
Everett Dirksen, fully Everett McKinley Dirksen
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money. [Attributed but disavowed by Dirksen]
Crime | Evidence | Innocence | Need | Understand |
With art and knavery we live through half the year; with knavery and art we live through the other.
Generosity | Selfishness | Time | Unkindness |