This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Some men's reputation seems like seed-wheat, which thrives best when brought from a distance.
Robert Benchley, fully Robert Charles Benchley
For a nation which has an almost evil reputation for bustle, bustle, bustle, and rush, rush, rush, we spend an enormous amount of time standing around in line in front of windows, just waiting.
Evil | Reputation | Time |
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
Good | Man | Reputation | Woman | Understand |
All we have of freedom - all we use or know - This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
Man | Money | Reputation | World |
Loyalty of your people is a key to most any business success.
Reputation | Leader |
If you think something should be done, take the trouble to write to me about it, and together we will decide the time and manner of doing it.
Good | Practice | Reputation | Virtue | Virtue |
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.
Opinion | Reputation |
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
Such are the vicissitudes of the world, through all its parts, that day and night, labor and rest, hurry and retirement, endear each other. Such are the changes that keep the mind in action; we desire, we pursue, we obtain, we are satiated; we desire something else, and begin a new pursuit.
Accuracy | Confidence | Reputation |
Sinéad O’Connor, fully Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor
I cannot put in danger the lives of my two children, my musicians and my technicians, so I have decided to cancel this concert.
Church | Reputation | Spirit | Will |
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
People | Reputation | Success |
Stendhal, pen name of Marie Henn Beyle or Marie-Henri Beyle NULL
Sometimes the impact of Mozart's music is so immediate that the vision in the mind remains blurred and incomplete, while the soul seems to be directly invaded, drenched in wave upon wave of melancholy.
Experience | Heart | Power | Reason | Reputation | World |
Of thoughts, feelings, memories, and beliefs held together by a sense of identity—and no longer mistakenly take it to be the truth of who you are or feel compelled to follow its directives. In
Enlightenment | Good | Merit | Popularity | Reputation | Zen | Following |
Stephen Leacock, fully Stephen Butler Leacock
Now, the essence, the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so, and lo, it presently turns out to be so.
Reputation | Think |
Theodore Dreiser, fully Theodore Herman Albert Dreiser
Carrie felt this as a personal reproof. She read Dora Thorne, or had a great deal in the past. It seemed only fair to her, but she supposed that people thought it very fine. Now this clear- eyed, fine-headed youth, who looked something like a student to her, made fun of it. It was poor to him, not worth reading. She looked down, and for the first time felt the pain of not understanding.
Government | Important | Inquiry | Man | Need | Organization | People | Poverty | Reputation | War | Government | Vicissitudes |
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
Behavior | Conversation | Hypothesis | Man | Reputation |
Stupidity may be defined as mental slowness in speech and action.
Neglect | Reputation |
Théophile Gautier, fully Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier, aka Le Bon Theo
What is the use of beauty in woman? Provided a woman is physically well made and capable of bearing children, she will always be good enough in the opinion of economists. What is the use of music? -- of painting? Who would be fool enough nowadays to prefer Mozart to Carrel, Michael Angelo to the inventor of white mustard? There is nothing really beautiful save what is of no possible use. Everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need, and man's needs are low and disgusting, like his own poor, wretched nature. The most useful place in a house is the water-closet. For my part, saving these gentry's presence, I am of those to whom superfluities are necessaries, and I am fond of things and people in inverse ratio to the service they render me. I prefer a Chinese vase with its mandarins and dragons, which is perfectly useless to me, to a utensil which I do use, and the particular talent of mine which I set most store by is that which enables me not to guess logogriphs and charades. I would very willingly renounce my rights as a Frenchman and a citizen for the sight of an undoubted painting by Raphael, or of a beautiful nude woman, -- Princess Borghese, for instance, when she posed for Canova, or Julia Grisi when she is entering her bath. I would most willingly consent to the return of that cannibal, Charles X., if he brought me, from his residence in Bohemia, a case of Tokai or Johannisberg; and the electoral laws would be quite liberal enough, to my mind, were some of our streets broader and some other things less broad. Though I am not a dilettante, I prefer the sound of a poor fiddle and tambourines to that of the Speaker's bell. I would sell my breeches for a ring, and my bread for jam. The occupation which best befits civilized man seems to me to be idleness or analytically smoking a pipe or cigar. I think highly of those who play skittles, and also of those who write verse. You may perceive that my principles are not utilitarian, and that I shall never be the editor of a virtuous paper, unless I am converted, which would be very comical.
Blush | Bride | Civilization | Marriage | Modesty | Reputation | Right | Society | Wife | World | Society | Old | Think |
I have lent myself willingly as the subject of a great experiment, which was to prove that an administration conducting itself with integrity and common understanding cannot be battered down even by the falsehoods of a licentious press. . . . The fact being once established that the press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood, I leave it to others to restore it to its strength by recalling it within the pale of truth. Within that it is a noble institution, equally the friend of science and civil liberty.
Man | Reputation | Will |