This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
In conclusion, I have endeavored, with what success has been already determined by the voice of my own country, to give a panorama of Irish life among the people … and in doing this, I can say with solemn truth that I painted them honestly and without reference to the existence of any particular creed or party.
Adventure | Appetite | Battle | Beauty | Consciousness | Consequences | Father | Fighting | Friend | Influence | Love | Man | Means | Mirth | Nothing | Sense | Silence | Spirit | Vengeance | Will | Woe | Beauty | Friends |
This cabin, Mary, in my sight appears, built as it has been in our waning years, a rest afforded to our weary feet, preliminary to - the last retreat.
Wealth |
To trace in Nature's most minute design the signature and stamp of power divine… The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, to whom an atom is an ample field.
Glory | Proficiency |
Oh for a closer walk with God, a calm and heavenly frame; a light to shine upon the road that leads me to the Lamb!
Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, that dread th' encroachments of our growing streets, tight boxes neatly sash'd, and in a blaze with all a july sun's collected rays, delight the citizen, who gasping there, breathes clouds of dust, and calls it country air. O sweet retirement, who would balk the thought that could afford retirement, or could not? 'Tis such an easy walk, so smooth and straight,-- the second milestone fronts the garden gate; a step if fair, and if a shower approach you find safe shelter in the next stagecoach, there prison'd in a parlor snug and small, like bottled wasps upon a southern wall, the man of business and his friends compress'd, forget their labors, and yet find no rest; but still 'tis rural,--trees are to be seen from every window, and the fields are green.
Grace |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
All the speeches during the convention had nothing whatever to do with law. They were all preludes to the next presidential election. They were opening overtures in the Follies. And you can't blame 'em. Pretty near everybody that does something has got a reason, and lots of times it's a pretty good one... But to get back to the lawyers and their convention. They just have a thousand committees to fix everything. They got one, too, to drive the shyster lawyer out of their ranks, but it's sorter like a skeleton in the closet, some of the more old conservative ones don't want it dragged out. But they are doing a lot to eliminate him. Not all they could do if they entered into it whole heartedly (they could kick 'em right out of the courts) but they are doing something.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Say, wait a minute. This heat out here is just about as tough as it is anywhere. Went down and spoke at some lawyers' meeting last night. They didn't think much of my little squib yesterday about driving the shysters out of their profession. They seemed to kinder doubt just who would have to leave. Pretty serious, some of `em. But the big percentage are regular guys. Had three ex-Cabinet members there from three different Presidents, Hurley, Secretary of War under Mr. Hoover; Wilbur, Secretary of Navy under Mr. Coolidge; and Will Hays, who served under Mr. Harding.
Think |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
If you can build a business up big enough, it's respectable.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
I have looked politics and the movies both over and, while they have much in common I believe politics is the most common, so I will stay with the movies.
Confidence | Work | World |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Politics is the only sporting event in the world where they don’t pay off for second money; a man to run second in any other event in the world it’s an honor. But any time he runs second for President it’s not an honor. It’s a pity.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
I love horses and I only ask--don't let me know which one we are eating today.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Why, every lot out here has its own agent. Agents get rich out here just off the various commissions on one lot. If an agent handles two lots he opens up a branch office and has an assistant.
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
She sat down at the piano and began to run over the first act of the Walkure, the last of his roles they had practiced together; playing listlessly and absently at first, but with gradually increasing seriousness. Perhaps it was the still heat of the summer night, perhaps it was the heavy odors from the garden that came in through the open windows; but as she played there grew and grew the feeling that he was there, beside her, standing in his accustomed place. In the duet at the end of the first act she heard him clearly: Thou art the Spring for which I sighed in Winter's cold embraces. Once as he sang it, he had put his arm about her, his one hand under her heart, while with the other he took her right from the keyboard, holding her as he always held Sieglinde when he drew her toward the window. She had been wonderfully the mistress of herself at the time; neither repellent nor acquiescent. She remembered that she had rather exulted, then, in her self-control--which he had seemed to take for granted, though there was perhaps the whisper of a question from the hand under her heart. Thou art the Spring for which I sighed in Winter's cold embraces. Caroline lifted her hands quickly from the keyboard, and she bowed her head in them, sobbing.
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.