This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
It takes a long time to understand nothing.
Nothing | Time | Wisdom | Understand |
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered, which can seldom or never be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best.
Excellence | God | Good | Impulse | Life | Life | Longing | Soul | Time | Wisdom | Excellence |
Joseph Conrad, born Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski
There is never enough time to say our last word - the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.
Desire | Enough | Faith | Love | Remorse | Submission | Time | Wisdom |
The tongue should into be suffered to outrun the mind.
Myers Y. Cooper, fully Myers Young Cooper
It has been well stated "that the pioneer is a creature not of time but of spirit."
Lewis Dilwyn, fully Monsignor Dilwyn W Lewis
People are commonly so employed in pointing out faults in those before them, as to forget that some behind may at the same time be descanting on their own.
The time has come when we must hope our children and their children ad infinitum will want from life more than material success. They must have enough of that to ensure a roof, clothing, food and some recreation, but, if we are to survive for another two hundred years, we must change our way of life.
Change | Children | Enough | Hope | Life | Life | Recreation | Success | Time | Will | Wisdom |
Some people, in working toward a goal, find themselves seized by inertia when it comes time for action. If this should happen to you, despite the small graduated steps, then it is time to reexamine your goal. Consider how important it actually is and then either discard the goal and replace it with a more suitable one or continue the steps with a renewed sense of the value of achieving it.
Action | Important | People | Sense | Time | Wisdom | Inertia | Value |
It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it.
Experience | Time | Wisdom |
Everett Dirksen, fully Everett McKinley Dirksen
There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time - not tomorrow, nor next year, nor in some future life after we have died. The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year. Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life. Today should always be our most wonderful day.
Better | Day | Future | Life | Life | Little | Present | Time | Tomorrow | Wisdom |