This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Not cheap politicians but statesmen are needed today. Not opportunists but men and women of principle must be demanded by the people. In this time of great stress and danger we must place [in office] only those dedicated to the preservation of our Constitution, our American Republic, and responsible freedom under God. “Oh, God, give us men with a mandate higher than the ballot box.”
Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
Nothing matter but the quality of the affection—in the end—that has carved the trace in the mind dove sta memoria.
That was how they would have liked to be: what they were doing was to dream up ideals and then refashion their past lives to match them. Speech is a rolling-machine that always stretches the feelings it expresses.
Wants |
She recognized the passion and the pain whereof she had all but died. The voice of the heroine seemed but the echo of her own heart, and the lovely illusion before her, part and parcel of her life. But no one on earth had ever loved 'her' with such a love as that.
Wants |
I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.
We should not touch our idols: their gilding will remain on our hands.
The complete encounter with the Lord will mark an end to history, but it will take place in history.
The information technologies which were historically born from military research are, today, on the verge of developing an offensive capability of destruction, which could tomorrow, if we?re not careful, completely destroy world peace.
Good |
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks, and hobgoblins.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
Liberals have many tails and chase them all.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.
Wants |
J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate.
J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
All now took leave of the Lord of the City and went to rest while they still could. Outside there was a starless blackness as Gandalf, with Pippin beside him bearing a small torch, made his way to their lodging. They did not speak until they were behind closed doors. Then at last Pippin took Gandalf's hand. 'Tell me,' he said, 'is there any hope? For Frodo, I mean; or at least mostly for Frodo.' Gandalf put his hand on Pippin's head. 'There never was much hope,' he answered. 'Just a fool's hope, as I have been told. And when I heard of Cirith Ungol--' He broke off and strode to the window, as if his eyes could pierce the night in the East. 'Cirith Ungol!' he muttered. 'Why that way, I wonder?' He turned. 'Just now, Pippin, my heart almost failed me, hearing that name. And yet in truth I believe that the news that Faramir brings has some hope in it. For it seems clear that the Enemy has opened his war at last and made the first move when Frodo was still free. So now for many days he will have his eye turned this way and that, away from his own land. And yet, Pippin, I feel from afar his haste and fear. He has begun sooner than he would. Something has happened to stir him.