This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Discretion is the mother of virtue.
Discretion | Mother | Virtue | Virtue |
William Temple, fully Sir William Temple, 1st Baronet
Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches, because mother of thought. Both are avoided by most rich men, who seek company and business, which are signs of being weary of themselves.
Business | Leisure | Men | Mother | Riches | Solitude | Thought |
A child tells in the street what its father and mother say at home.
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion.
Claudian, latin Claudius Claudianus NULL
Expel avarice, the mother of all wickedness, who, always thirst for more, opens wide her jaws for gold.
Avarice | Gold | Mother | Wickedness |
A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
Conscience | Invention | Mother | Guilty |
A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Mother |
My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint.
Mother |
Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm
In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother must not only tolerate, she must wish and support the child’s separation.
It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men’s theories such as the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only does this put added pressure on the budget, but it places young children in an environment away from mother’s influence. Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children’s needs. That decision can be most shortsighted. It is mother’s influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child’s basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother’s loving example to choose righteousness. How vital are mother’s influence and teaching in the home—and how apparent when neglected!
Children | Decision | Example | Influence | Mother | Theories | Training | Truth | Work | Child |
Erich Fromm, fully Erich Seligmann Fromm
By incestuous symbiosis is meant the tendency to stay tied to the mother and to her equivalents — blood, family, tribe — to fly from the unbearable weight of responsibility, of freedom, of awareness, and to be protected and loved in a state of certainty dependence that the individual pays for with the ceasing of his own human development.
Dependence | Individual | Mother |
Giordano Bruno, born Filippo Bruno
Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.