This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe; give not a windy night a rainy morrow, to linger out a purposed overthrow. If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last," - William Shakespeare
"It is not enough to be compassionate, you must act." - Dalai Lama, born Tenzin Gyatso NULL
"The cause of justice is the cause of humanity. Its advocates should overflow with universal good will. We should love this cause, for it conduces to the general happiness of mankind." - William Godwin
"The grace thou hast will soon be less, if thou addest not more to it." - William Gurnall
"The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives." - William James
"I am very sensible how much nobler it is to place the reward of virtue in the silent approbation of one’s own breast, than in the applause of the world." - William Melmoth, wrote under pseudonym Sir Thomas Fitzosborne
"O curse of marriage! That we can call these delicate creatures ours, and not their appetites. I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapour of a dungeon, than keep a corner in the thing I love for others' uses. Othello, Act iii, Scene 3" - William Shakespeare
"O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea!" - William Shakespeare
"O God, that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times make mountains level, and the continent, weary of solid firmness, melt itself into the sea." - William Shakespeare
"O that men's ears should be to counsel deaf but not to flattery!" - William Shakespeare
"O, that men's ears should be To counsel deaf, but not to flattery! The Life of Timon of Athens (Apemantus at I, ii)" - William Shakespeare
"Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor." - Edwin Percy Whipple
"If you don't keep a close eye on your property, people will steal from you." - Egyptian Proverbs
"It is the sublime miracle of the human mind: memory." - Elias Canetti
"See first that the design is wise and just: that ascertained, pursue it resolutely; do not for one repulse forego the purpose that you resolved to effect." - William Shakespeare
"So man and man should be, but clay and clay differs in dignity, whose dust is both alike." - William Shakespeare
"God forgive you, but I never can." - Elizabeth II, born Elizabeth Alexandra May NULL
"In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part." - Emma Goldman
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." - English Proverbs
"The best things in life are free." - English Proverbs
"I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man." - Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara
"Our universities produced lawyers and doctors for the old social system, but did not create enough agricultural extension teachers, agronomists, chemists, or physicists. In fact, we do not even have mathematicians." - Che Guevara, fully Ernesto “Che” Guevara
"Be an example to your men in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered, and teach your subordinates to be the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide." - Erwin Rommel, fully Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel
"The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions." - Erwin Rommel, fully Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel
"Who wants to teach others has to be learned himself." - Estonian Proverbs
"Any goal of a natural desire is legitimate, it inspires all means are good." - Étienne Pivert de Senancour
"'Liberal' comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why the word had to be erased from our political lexicon." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
"Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television." - Gore Vidal, fully Eugene Luther Gore Vidal
"The most barbarous fact in all christendom is the labor market. The mere term sufficiently expresses the animalism of commercial civilization.They who buy and they who sell in the labor market are alike dehumanized by the inhuman traffic in the brains and blood and bones of human beings." - Eugene V. Debs, fully Eugene Victor Debs
"There is one thing alone that stands the brunt of life throughout its length: a quite conscience." - Euripedes NULL
"They say that the eyes of the hosts look to help seekers exiles in the Annex for just one day." - Euripedes NULL
"We must flaw friends just and noble anger to the right of their friends from harm and injustice." - Euripedes NULL
"What mortal claims, by searching to the utmost limit, to have found out the nature of God, or of his opposite, or of that which comes between, seeing as he doth this world of man tossed to and fro by waves of contradiction and strange vicissitudes?" - Euripedes NULL
"Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man." - Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
"Religion is defined by the relationship between God and man. And Islam is the submission and the acknowledgment of the human being to the creator." - Feisal Abdul Rauf
"It may be impossible for a man by merely willing it to add wings to his body, but it is possible for any man, by merely willing it, to add wings to his soul. This perennial miracle of the moral nature is capable of happening at any time." - Felix Adler
"The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about its sides, one in front, and the fourth behind." - Gustave Flaubert
"Life is slippery. We all need a loving hand to hold onto." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"How little it takes to make life unbearable... A pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
"The verdict of a jury is the a priori opinion of that juror who smokes the worst cigars." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
"There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions." - H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
"The goal of the equality of man which we seek is the antithesis of the exploitation of one people by another with which the pages of history and in particular those written of the African and Asian continents, speak at such length." - Haile Selassie
"The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act - and if necessary, to suffer and die - for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied." - Haile Selassie
"It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country." - Hannah Arendt
"Since light is best expressed through differences in color quality, color should not be handled as a tonal gradation, to produce the effect of light." - Hans Hoffman
"Since one cannot create "real depth" by carving a hole in the picture, and since one should not attempt to create the illusion of depth by tonal gradation, depth as a plastic reality must be two dimensions in a formal sense as well in the sense of color. "Depth" is not created on a flat surface as an illusion, but as a plastic reality. The nature of the picture plane makes it possible to achieve depth without destroying the two-dimensional essence of the picture plane. ... A plane is a fragment in the architecture of space. When a number of planes are opposed one to another, a spatial effect results. A plane functions in the same manner as the walls of a building. ... Planes organized within a picture create the pictorial space of its composition. ... The old masters were plane-consciousness. This makes their pictures restful as well as vital..." - Hans Hoffman
"As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief, that can rise to delight, that, thank Heaven, nobody is reporting in this fashion on us." - J. B. Priestly, fully John Boynton Priestly
"If people were in the habit of referring to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful landslide into Theyocracy." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
"In the waters there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than any substance else that is in this Earth; and many? hearken still unsated to the voice of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen." - J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien