This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
W. H. Auden, fully Wystan Hugh Auden
You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, as surgeon making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading, wear that same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function. How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-object look.
W. C. Fields, stage name for William Claude Dukenfield
We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. But the blame almost always is placed on whisky. Why this should be I never could understand. You can die from drinking too much of anything - coffee, water, milk, soft drinks and all such stuff as that. And so long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whisky.
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W. C. Fields, stage name for William Claude Dukenfield
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
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W. C. Fields, stage name for William Claude Dukenfield
Yes, if every other form of persuasion fails. [Response when asked if he believed in clubs for women]
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Vivienne Westwood, born Vivienne Isabel Swire
But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.
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Voltaire, pen name of François-Marie Arouet NULL
Doubt is not a pleasant condition but certainty is an absurd one.
Voltaire, pen name of François-Marie Arouet NULL
In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.
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Voltaire, pen name of François-Marie Arouet NULL
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
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Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far from it and given it the changed look, the composed look, of something receding in which one has no longer any part.
Vincent van Gogh, fully Vincent Willem van Gogh
I shouldn't precisely have chosen madness if there had been any choice, but once such a thing has taken hold of you, you can't very well get out of it.
Vincent van Gogh, fully Vincent Willem van Gogh
That God of the clergymen, He is for me as dead as a doornail. But am I an atheist for all that? The clergymen consider me as such- be it so; but I love, and how could I feel love if I did not live, and if others did not live, and then, if we live, t
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Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
I mean, what is a woman? I assure you, I do not know. I do not believe that you know. I do not believe that anybody can know until she has expressed herself in all the arts and professions open to human skill.
Virginia Woolf, nee Stephen, fully Adeline Virginia Woolf
Nothing is stronger than the position of the dead among the living.