This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
A handsome woman is a jewel; a good woman is a treasure.
The effect of character is always to command consideration.
Character | Consideration | Wisdom |
Robert Louis Stevenson, fully Robert Louis Balfour Stevenson
A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.
The poet is in command of his fantasy, while it is the mark of the neurotic that he is possessed by his fantasy.
Wisdom |
How many wars have been caused by fits of indigestion, and how many more dynasties have been upset by the love of woman than by the hate of man.
Earle Birney, fully Earle Alfred Birney
Love rests on the preservation of our species; art is our instinctive instrument for the preservation of the individual, of the unique man, woman and child, and the means of evolution of us all into something able and worthy of survival on the living earth.
Art | Earth | Evolution | Individual | Love | Man | Means | Survival | Unique | Woman | Art |
Peter Benchley, fully Peter Bradford Benchley
Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
Louis K. Anspacher, fully Louis Kannan Anspacher
Marriage is that relation between man and woman in which the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal.
Dependence | Man | Marriage | Obligation | Woman |
An ideal command system… should be able to gather information accurately, continuously, comprehensively, selectively, and fast. Reliable means must be developed to distinguish the true from the false, the relevant from the irrelevant, the material from the immaterial.
Distinguish | Means | System |
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud
Ethics is… to be regarded as a therapeutic attempt – as an endeavor to achieve, by means of a command of the superego, something which has so far not been achieved by means of any other cultural activities. As we already know, the problem before us is how to get rid of the greatest hindrance to civilization – namely, the constitutional inclination of human beings to be aggressive towards one another.
Civilization | Ethics | Inclination | Means |