This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.
Glory | Truth | Understand |
Sinful and forbidden pleasures are like poisoned bread; they may satisfy appetite for the moment, but there is death in them at the end.
Correctness | Evidence | Truth | Will |
Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Compassion | Life | Life | Service | Truth |
Hsuan Hua, aka An Tzu and Tu Lun
The only way we can influence people is to set a good example for them and win their respect for our integrity and values.
Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope.
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
I'm actually not against drilling. What I'm against is making that the center of our focus because we are on the eve of a new revolution, the energy technology revolution. It would be, Tom, as if on the eve of the IT revolution, the revolution of PCs and the internet, someone was up there standing and demanding, "IBM Selectric typewriters, IBM Selectric typewriters." That's what "drill, drill, drill" is the equivalent of today.
Thomas Malthus, fully Thomas Robert Malthus
It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.
Philosophy | Truth | Will |
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
You can't bet your whole life on some destination. You've got to make the journey work too. And that is why I leave you with some wit and wisdom attributed to Mark Twain: Always work like you don't need the money. Always fall in love like you've never been hurt. Always dance like nobody is watching. And always -- always -- live like it's heaven on earth.
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living.
Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
The United States must be neutral in fact as well as in name...We must be impartial in thought as well as in action.
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
The tiny tealeaf of consciousness spreads its bittersweet smoke through the sea of the primitive mind. Law is invented, then morality, then love, then forgiveness. Thousands and thousands of ideas, knit together over time, each one less practical and more ornamental than the last, all stretched taut above the wandering, wondering heads like a little pavilion; a temporary shelter for the human project.
Truth |
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
Truth |
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will avoid a hundred days of sorrow.
Against ill chances men are ever merry, but heaviness foreruns the good event.
Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK: Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE: I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK: You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE: Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, Signior: fare you well. Exit. BENEDICK: Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that. Much Ado About Nothing, Act ii, Scene 3
Truth |