This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Prosperity and Vanity are often lodg'd together. Prosperity destroys Fools, endangers the Wise, Prosperity has every Thing cheap. Prosperity knows not the worth of Patience. Prosperity takes no Counsel, and fears no Calamity. Prosperous Men seldom mend their Faults.
Calamity | Counsel | Men | Patience | Prosperity | Wise | Worth |
One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.
To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival. But when nothing is valued for what it is, everything is destined to be wasted. Once the values of things refer only to their future usefulness, then an infinite withdrawal of value from the living present has begun. Nothing (and nobody) can then exist that is not theoretically replaceable by something (or somebody) more valuable. The country that we (or some of us) had thought to make our home becomes instead 'a nation rich in natural resources'; the good bounty of the land begins its mechanical metamorphosis into junk, garbage, silt, poison, and other forms of 'waste.' "The inevitable result of such an economy is that no farm or any other usable property can safely be regarded by anyone as a home, no home is ultimately worthy of our loyalty, nothing is ultimately worth doing, and no place or task or person is worth a lifetime's devotion. 'Waste,' in such an economy, must eventually include several categories of humans--the unborn, the old, 'disinvested' farmers, the unemployed, the 'unemployable.' Indeed, once our homeland, our source, is regarded as a resource, we are all sliding downward toward the ash-heap or the dump.
Earth | Future | Good | Hope | Inevitable | Land | Nothing | Present | Property | Survival | Thought | Worth | Thought | Value |
The most valuable thing you can ever own is your image of yourself as a winner in the great game of life, as a contributor to the betterment of mankind, as an achiever of worthy goals. Unless you have that image of yourself, nothing worth having will stay with you for long.
Cowardice is not synonymous with prudence. It often happens that the better part of discretion is valour.
Better | Cowardice | Discretion | Prudence | Prudence |
Art Linkletter, fully Arthur Gordon "Art" Linkletter
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.
Worth |
Booker T. Washington, fully Booker Taliaferro Washington
The longer I live the more I am convinced that the one thing worth living for and dying for is the privilege of making someone more happy and more useful. No person who ever does anything to lift their fellows ever makes a sacrifice.
A teacher who tends to lower the self-esteem and confidence of his students should either change this tendency or change professions. One of the most important lessons an educator can convey to students is that they have inherent worth and should strive to utilize their potential.
Change | Confidence | Esteem | Important | Self | Self-esteem | Worth | Teacher |
B. C. Forbes, fully Bertie Charles "B.C." Forbes
One worthwhile task carried to a successful completion is worth a hundred half-finished tasks.
Worth |
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual