This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Learning itself, received into a mind by nature weak, or viciously inclined, serves but to lead philosophers astray, where children would with ease discern the way.
Will Durant, fully William James "Will" Durant
The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
Enlightenment | Improvement | Mind | Revolution |
Will Durant, fully William James "Will" Durant
A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist
Cause | Civilization |
Wilkie Collins, fully William Wilkie Collins
I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get it. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.
Wants |
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
Every land or property owner in America would be tickled to death to pay 45 per cent of his profits, if he didn't have to pay anything if he didn't make it.
Will Rogers, fully William Penn Adair "Will" Rogers
I am a peace man. I haven't got any use for wars and there is no more humor in 'em than there is reason for 'em.
Cost |
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too full of life and love. They can't help it. People come to them as people go to a warm fire in winter.
Forgive |
Most history is guessing, and the rest is prejudice.
Ability | History | Revolution | Strength | Wealth |
The defense of our democracy against the forces that threaten it from without has made some of its failures to function at home glaringly apparent.
Popular opinion is oftenest, what Carlyle pronounced it to be, a lie!
Whittaker Chambers, born Jay Vivian Chambers, aka Jay David Whittaker Chambers
What I felt [as he was about to testify before the Congressional committee] was what we see in the eye of a bird or an animal that we are about to kill, which knows that it is about to be killed, and whose torment is not the certainty of death or pain, but the horror of the interval before death comes in which it knows that it has lost light and freedom forever. It is not yet dead. But it is no longer alive.