This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Returning he proclaims by many a grace, by shrugs and strange contortions of his face, how much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
Wilkie Collins, fully William Wilkie Collins
Ask yourself if there is any explanation of the mystery of your own life and death.
Evil | Good | Mercy | Mortal | Opportunity |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
About being a U.S. Senator, the only thing the law says you have to be is 30 years old. Not another single requirement. They just figure that a man that old got nobody to blame but himself if he gets caught there.
Prayer |
Wilkie Collins, fully William Wilkie Collins
People who read stories are said to have excitable brains.
Experience | Influence | Mercy | Mission | Past |
Wilhelm von Humboldt, fully Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Karl Ferdinand von Humboldt
Providence certainly does not favor just certain individuals, but the deep wisdom of its counsel, instruction and ennoblement extends to all.
Devotion | Individual | Prayer | Words |
Will Durant, fully William James "Will" Durant
War is one of the constants of history, and it has not diminished with civilization or democracy.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
The Ways and Means Committee is a committee that's supposed to find the Ways to divide up the Means.
Prayer |
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
Wilfred Trotter, fully Wilfred Batten Lewis Trotter
The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists of such power—to name only a few—as Aquinas and Calvin and Hegel and Marx. Guided by these master hands the intellect has shown itself more deadly than cholera or bubonic plague and far more cruel. The incompatibility with one another of all the great systems of doctrine might surely be have expected to provoke some curiosity about their nature.
Ideas | Mercy | Mind | Usefulness | Will |
Wilferd Peterson, fully Wilferd Arlan Peterson
And then there is the thrill of creatively sowing ideas and inspiration into the minds of others. Often our contributions will actually change lives by sharing appreciation, courage, love, and joy. Carry the ideal of being a creative sower, that you are on the side of growth, plenty, peace, and progress. Make it a point to scatter creative seeds every day of your life!
Adventure | Art | Courage | Curiosity | Daring | Day | Dreams | Faith | Flexibility | Grave | Heart | Life | Life | Man | Men | Reading | Safe | Theories | Flexibility | Art | Stamina |
Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
We're not trying to entertain the critics ... I'll take my chances with the public.
Contentment | Good | Happy | Public | Worry | Happiness | Think |
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
Care | Inevitable | Will |
There are many who are hypocrites although they think they are not, and there are many who are afraid of being hypocrites although they certainly are not. Which is the one and which is the other God knows, and none but He.
Cause | Desire | Grace | Lord | Means | Prayer | Purpose | Purpose | Receive | Will |
That a Man should know the measure of his Gift, that he may desire and take a better when God giveth it.
Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities, is not exercising compulsion, it is evident that the more varied and comprehensive the regulation becomes, the more the state becomes a despotic power as against the individual. For the fragment of control over the government which he exercises through his vote is in no effective sense proportionate to the authority exercised over him by the government.
I see that the life of this place is always emerging beyond expectation or prediction or typicality, that it is unique, given to the world minute by minute, only once, never to be repeated. And this is when I see that this life is a miracle, absolutely worth having, absolutely worth saving. We are alive within mystery, by miracle.