This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
A wise man should foresee tragedy or misfortune and take action to prevent or overcome such tragedy or misfortune well before it strikes. Thus only he can enjoy a safe and good life.
A worthy man is still worthy even penniless, a donkey is a donkey even if he is finely saddled.
Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
The fact that no two major countries have done to war since they both got McDonald’s is partly due to economic integration, but it is also due to the presence of American power and America’s willingness to use that power against those who would threaten the system of globalization–from Iraq to North Korea. The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist.[...] McDonald’s cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the US Air Force F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley’s technologies to flourish is called the US Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. And these fighting forces and institutions are paid for by American taxpayer dollars.
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We there, in strife bewild’ring, Spilt blood enough to swim in: We orphaned many children, And widowed many women. The eagles and the ravens We glutted with our foemen; The heroes and the cravens, The spearmen and the bowmen.
Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
They had been brought up to think that the domestic virtues were self-evident and universal; they had been starved of the knowledge that most attracts the young mind: that the crown of life is the exercise of choice
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
Now tequila may be the favored beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has betrayed as many outlaws as has the central nervous system and dissatisfied wives. Tequila, scorpion honey, harsh dew of the doglands, essence of Aztec, crema de cacti; tequila, oily and thermal like the sun in solution; tequila, liquid geometry of passion; Tequila, the buzzard god who copulates in midair with the ascending souls of dying virgins; tequila, firebug in the house of good taste; O tequila, savage water of sorcery, what confusion and mischief your sly, rebellious drops do generate!
A woman moved is like a fountain troubled,— Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty, And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it. The Taming of the Shrew. Act v. Sc. 2.
Ah! what a sign it is of evil life, when death's approach is seen so terrible!
A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not.
A woman sometime scorns what best contents her. Send her another; never give her o'er, for scorn at first makes after-love the more. If she do frown, 'tis not in hate of you, but rather to beget more love in you. If she do chide, 'tis not to have you gone, for why the fools are mad if left alone. Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; for 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces. That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act iii, Scene 1
And I, of ladies most deject and wretched, That sucked the honey of his music vows, Now see that noble and most sovereign reason Like sweet bells jangled, out of time and harsh, That unmatched form and feature of blown youth Blasted with ecstasy. Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ophelia at III, i)
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Art thou a woman's son, and canst not feel What 'tis to love? How want of love tormenteth?
By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive. The Life of King Henry the Fifth (King Henry at IV, iii)