This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
The custom of frequent reflection will keep their minds from running adrift, and call their thoughts home from useless unattentive roving.
Custom | Reflection | Will | Wisdom |
Samuel David Luzzatto, aka by acronym of SHaDaL or SHeDaL
Judaism looks upon all human beings as children of one Father; thinks of them as all created in the image of God, and insists that a man be judged not by his religion, but his action.
Action | Children | Father | God | Looks | Man | Religion | Wisdom |
Michel de Montaigne, fully Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Unhappy is the man, in my opinion, who has not a spot at home where he can be at home to himself - to court himself and hide away.
John Morley, 1st Viscount Morely of Blackburn, Lord Morley
I believe the recipe for happiness to be just enough money to pay the monthly bills you acquire, a little surplus to give you confidence, a little too much work each day, enthusiasm for your work, a substantial share of good health, a couple of real friends, and a wife and children to share life's beauty with you.
Beauty | Children | Confidence | Day | Enough | Enthusiasm | Good | Health | Life | Life | Little | Money | Surplus | Wife | Wisdom | Work | Beauty | Happiness |
Mendele Mokher Sforim or Sfarim, pseudonymn of Shalom Jacob Abramowitsch
Respect the children of the poor! From them come most poets.
Most ideas are step-by-step children of other ideas.
One of the most difficult lessons parents have to learn is this one: Children are only loaned for a brief term of infancy and childhood. Soon they become people, strangers in the home, and instead of children to be directed they are grown-ups to be studied, understood and accepted. The acceptance is never quite complete on either side, but affection will bridge the gap if it is permitted to do so.
Acceptance | Childhood | Children | Infancy | Parents | People | Will | Wisdom | Learn |
Robert Oppenheimer, fully Julius Robert Oppenheimer
There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics... they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
Children | Perception | Problems | Wisdom |