This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Richard H. Rice, fully Richard Henry Rice
The mature man knows that he is likely to make mistakes. He wants to take responsibility for them. Only by facing his mistakes does he learn to act more responsibly.
Character | Man | Responsibility | Wants | Learn |
There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become rich. As long as they don't have the money, it will seem like a worthwhile goal. Once they do, they will understand how important other things are - and have always been.
Important | Money | Thinking | Wants | Will | Wisdom | Understand |
Richard Francis Burton, fully Sir Richard Francis Burton
Every other sin hath some pleasures annexed to it, or will admit of some excuse, but envy wants both. We should strive against it, for if indulged in it will be to us as a foretaste of hell upon earth.
Bette Davis, Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis
The person who wants to make it has to sweat. There are no short cuts. And you've got to have the guts to be hated.
G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don’t blame the women’s movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based.
God does not want us to do extraordinary things: he wants us to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Jean Guéhenno, given name Marcel-Jules-Marie Guéhenno
Our wants serve us almost as well as our possessions.
Possessions | Wants | Wisdom |