This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Ludwig Börne, fully Karl Ludwig Börne
Experience is like a pitiless beauty. Years pass before you win her, and by the time she finally surrenders, you have both grown old and no longer need one another.
The best government rests on the people, and not on the few, on persons and not on property, on the free development of public opinion and not on authority.
Authority | Government | Opinion | People | Property | Public | Wisdom | Government |
Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.
Bernard Baruch, fully Bernard Mannes Baruch
Government is not a substitute for people, but simply an instrument through which they act. And if the individual fails to do his duty as a citizen, government becomes a very deadly instrument.
Duty | Government | Individual | People | Wisdom | Government |
Orlando A. Battistam, fully Orlando Aloysius Battista, aka O.A. Battista
The best inheritance a parent can give his children is a few minutes of his time each day.
Eugene P. Bertin, fully Eugene Peter Bertin
Honest work bears a lovely face for it is the father of pleasure and the mother of good fortune. It is the keystone of prosperity and the sire of fame. And best of all, work is relief from sorrow and the handmaiden of happiness.
Fame | Father | Fortune | Good | Mother | Pleasure | Prosperity | Sorrow | Wisdom | Work |
Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth his handiwork.
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Forgiveness | Glory | Wisdom |
Praise is especially destructive to children, for they readily grasp the fact that praise is based on identification with their actions. Thus, they automatically blame themselves every time they make a mistake. This is the beginning of their lack of Self-Esteem.
Beginning | Blame | Children | Esteem | Mistake | Praise | Self | Self-esteem | Time | Wisdom |
Arnold Bennett, fully Enoch Thomas Arnold Bennett
Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it, nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.