This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
One of the prime causes of unhappiness in the world is approval-seeking.
Character | Unhappiness | World |
Ardis Whitman, fully Ardis Rumsey Whitman
Toscanini's eightieth birthday, someone asked his son, Walter, what his father ranked as his most important achievement. The son replied, "For him there can be no such thing. Whatever he happens to be doing at the moment is the biggest thing in his life - whether it is conducting a symphony or peeling an orange."
Achievement | Character | Father | Important | Life | Life |
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
Saint Augustine, aka Augustine of Hippo, St. Austin, Bishop of Hippo NULL
Should you ask me, "What is the first thing in religion?" I should reply, "The first, second, and third things therein - nay, all - is humility."
He who eats much evacuates much, and he who increaseth this flesh multiplieth food for worms; but he who multiplieth good works causes peace within himself.
Any living thing which triumphs in the struggle against its environment destroys itself.
The Holy One, blessed be He, hates a person who says one thing with his mouth and another in his heart.
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is far more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. The tree which moves some to tears of joy in the eyes of others only a green thing which stands in the way. As a man is, so he sees.
To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way.
Clive Barnes, fully Clive Alexander Barnes
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everyone and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Culture | People | Television | Wisdom |
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton
The man who seeks one, and but one, thing in life may hope to achieve it; but he who seeks all things, wherever he goes, only reaps, from the hopes which he sows, a harvest of barren regrets.