This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Rutherford B. Hayes, fully Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.
Sacha Guitry, fully Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry
He does not seem intelligent enough to be crazy.
Wife |
Bette Davis, Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis
I would take a bad script and a good director any day against a good script and a bad director.
Love | Man | Marriage | Wife | Will | Woman | Happiness | Understand |
Saint Francis of Assisi, born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone NULL
The secret consciousness of duty well performed; the public voice of praise that honors virtue, and rewards it; all these are yours.
Children | Eternal | Father | Hate | Life | Life | Lord | Mother | Receive | Rule | Wife | Will | Wishes |
I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.
Wife |
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
Cautious age suspects the flattering form, and only credits what experience tells.
I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
Opportunity | Wife | Will |
Shrimad Bhagavatam, or the Bhâgavata Purâna, Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, or Bhāgavata NULL
Sons ought to render service to their father exactly to this extent. One should obey the command of his father or spiritual master with due deference, saying, Yes, sir.
Illusion | Intelligence | Knowledge | Soul | Wife |
Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
Thus ends this year ... It is true we have gone through great melancholy because of the great plague, and I put to great charges by it, by keeping my family long at Woolwich, and myself and another part of my family, my clerks, at my charge at Greenwich ... But now the plague is abated almost to nothing ... But many of such as I know very well, dead. Yet to our great joy, the town fills apace, and shops begin to open again. Pray God continue the plague's decrease - for that keeps the Court away from the place of business, and so all goes to wrack as to public matters, they at this distance not thinking of it.
A beautiful woman must expect to be more accountable for her steps, than one less attractive.
Wife |
Men will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife.
Understanding | Wife | Afraid |
Simone de Beauvoir, fully Simone-Ernestine-Lucie-Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir
To abstain from politics is in itself a political attitude.