This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
We credit scarcely any persons with good sense except those who are of our opinion.
Little |
We pardon as long as we love.
Were we perfectly acquainted with the object, we should never passionately desire it.
We often believe we are constant under misfortunes when we are only dejected; and we suffer then without daring to look on them, like cowards who allow themselves to be killed through fear of defending themselves.
We are often vain of even the most criminal of our passions; but envy is so shameful a passion that we never dare to acknowledge it.
Good |
There are some people who would never have fallen in love if they had not heard there was such a thing.
We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves.
Some people resemble ballads which are only sung for a certain time.
We find means to cure folly, but none to reclaim a distorted mind.
Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.
Means |
O my love, my wife! Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty.
O, men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, by thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought put on for villainy, not born where't grows, but worn a bait for ladies.
Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, which we ascribe to heaven. All's Well That Ends Well
Oh, what may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
Oftentimes, excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse; As patches, set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault, Than did the fault before it was so patched.
Jealousy |
O, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal!
Our wills and fates do so contrary run that our devices still are overthrown; our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.