This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
Faith is the consolation of the wretched and the terror of the happy.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.
Better | Change | Distrust | Heart | Man | Nations | Reason | Thought | Trust | War | Will | World | Afraid | Child | Thought |
Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
By accident most strange, bountiful Fortune (Now, my dear lady) hath mine enemies Brought to this shore; and by my prescience I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop.
The pleasure of love is in the loving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires.
Distrust | Injustice | Injustice | Reality | Self-interest |
It is not enough to have great qualities, we must also have the management of them.
Murasaki Shikibu, aka Lady Murasaki
In a certain reign there was a lady not of the first rank whom the emperor loved more than any of the others. The grand ladies with high ambitions thought her a presumptuous upstart, and lesser ladies were still more resentful. Everything she did offended someone.
Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL
My mind was never to invade my neighbors.
Ernest Hemingway, fully Ernest Miller Hemingway
The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal.
Dirty | Distrust | Hope | Man | Murder | War | Will | Murder |