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
Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest.
The agrarian would divide all the property in the community equally among its members. - But if so divided today, industry on the one hand, and idleness on the other, would make it unequal on the morrow. - There is no agrarianism in the providence of God.
Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer
You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes ... but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity: People doing stupid things without realizing or, instead, thinking they were doing good.
Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer
It is a sobering thought that when Mozart was my age, he had been dead for two years.
Important | Right | Understand |
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
No matter how flourishing the world becomes, when it reaches the height of its glory, it will become dark again. All things in the world, great and small, are pretty much the same; they all go through cycles.
Tom Lehrer, fully Thomas Andrew Lehrer
For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!
Seek happiness for its own sake, and you will not find it; seek for duty, and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
Thomas J. Watson, Jr., fully Thomas John Watson, Jr.
The way to succeed is to double your error rate.
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.
In a bowl to sea went wise men three, On a brilliant night in June: They carried a net, and their hearts were set On fishing up the moon.
Thomas Szasz, fully Thomas Stephen Szasz
Keeping another person waiting is a basic tactic for defining him as inferior and oneself as superior.
Ability | Conformity | Health | Play |
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
All the extraordinary men I have known were extraordinary in their own estimation.
Lavish thousands of dollars on your baby clothes, and after all the child is prettiest when every garment is laid aside. That becoming nakedness, at least, may adorn the chubby darling of the poorest home.
Children | Choice | Faith | Good | Important | Man | Need | Patience | Sentiment | Time | Happiness |
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
By ‘flat’ I did not mean that the world is getting equal. I said that more people in more places can now compete, connect and collaborate with equal power and equal tools than ever before. That’s why an Indian in Bangalore can take care of the office work of American doctors or read the X-rays of German hospitals.