This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer
It is impossible to spoil a child under the age of eighteen months with too much love and attention.
How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god.
Good | Humor | Laughter | Companionship |
Let me say and not mourn: the world lives in the death of speech and sings there.
Laughter |
My father's father, his father's father, his— shadows like winds go back to a parent before thought, before speech, at the head of the past.
Vincent van Gogh, fully Vincent Willem van Gogh
Cobalt is a divine color and there is nothing as fine for putting an atmosphere round things. Carmine is the red of wine and is warm and lively like wine. The same goes for emerald green too. It's false economy to dispense with them, with those colors. Cadmium as well.
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
He had lost that privilege of simple nature, the dissociation of love and pleasure. Pleasure was no longer as simple as eating; it was being complicated by love. Now was beginning that crazy loss of one's self, that neglect of everything but one's dramatic thoughts about the beloved, that feverish inner life all turning upon the [loved one].
Bitterness | Business | Capacity | Conduct | Distinction | Laughter | Love | Pride | Suffering | Tears | World | Youth | Youth | Business |
Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! Hamlet, Act v, Scene 2
Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue: his faults lie open to the laws; let them, not you, correct him.
Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen
Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the whole of anyone.... What you want is the whole of me-isn't it, isn't it?-and the whole of me isn't there for anybody. In that full sense you want me I don't exist.
Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Therefore to this dog will I, tenderly not scornfully, render praise and favor: with my hand upon his head, is my benediction said therefore and forever.
Elizabeth Browning, fully Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Women know the way to rear up children (to be just); they know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense, and kissing full sense into empty words; which things are corals to cut life upon, although such trifles.
Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
Those who are beloved cannot die, because love means immortality.