This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"Learning is the heart of life - the mystical power that turns a word into a sign, a look into a smile, a house into a home, and a people into a civilization." - Eugene P. Bertin, fully Eugene Peter Bertin
"Where there is no vision, the people perish." - Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL
"Do not grieve. Misfortunes will happen to the wisest and best of men. Death will come, always out of season. It is the command of the Great Spirit, and all nations and people must obey. What is past and what cannot be prevented should not be grieved for... Misfortunes do not flourish particularly in our lives - they grow everywhere." - Big Elk, aka Ontopanga NULL
"To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way." - William Blake
"Thrift is not, as many suppose, a self repression. It is self expression, the demonstration of a will and ability to raise one's self to a higher plane of living. No depression was ever caused by people having too much money in reserve. No human being ever became a social drifter through the practice of sensible thrift." - Harvey A. Blodgett
"People are much greater and stronger than we imagine, and when unexpected tragedy comes we see them often grow to a stature that is far beyond anything we imagined. We must remember that people are capable of greatness, of courage, but not in isolation. They need the conditions of solidly linked human unit in which everyone is prepared to bear the burden of others." - Anthony of Sourozh, fully Archbishop Metropolitan Anthony Bloom of Sourozh NULL
"The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long term study of people who eventually became wealthy clearly reveals that their "luck" arose from accidental dedication they had to an arena they enjoyed." - Srully Blotnick
"We can prevent people from learning, but we can't make them unlearn." - Ludwig Börne, fully Karl Ludwig Börne
"What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more." - William J. H. Boetcker, fully William John Henry Boetcker
"Life is a journey, not a home; a road, not a city of habitation; and the enjoyments and blessings we have are but little inns on the roadside of life, where we may be refreshed for a moment, that we may with new strength press on to the end - to the rest that remaineth for the people of God." - Horatius Bonar
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." - Victor Borge, born Børge Rosenbaum
"Here is a simple but powerful rule. Always give people more than they expect to get." - Nelson Boswell
"The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We have really no absent friends." - Elizabeth Bowen, Full name Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen
"Thinking is the process that I hold in horror. I have thought for fifty years, with the most ghastly and disastrous results, mostly thoughts of my own, and if I attempt to superpose the thoughts of other people, I find my mental equipment utterly inadequate to the strain." - Gamaliel Bradford
"People have generally three epochs in their confidence in man. In the first they believe him to be everything that is good, and they are lavish with their friendship and confidence. In the next, they have had experience, which has smitten down their confidence, and they; then have to be careful not to mistrust every one, and to put the worst construction upon everything. Later in life, they learn that the greater number of men have much; more good in them than bad, and that even when there is cause to blame, there is more reason to pity than condemn; and then a spirit of confidence again awakens within them." - Frederika Bremer
"The tendency is to be broadminded about other people's security." - Aristide Briand
"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave." - Lord Brougham, fully Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux
"We have too many people who live without working, and we have altogether too many who work without living." - Charles R. Brown
"A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering the position." - Jean de La Bruyère
"We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect." - Jean de La Bruyère
"People on the whole are very simpleminded in whatever country one finds them. They are so simple as to take literally, more often than no, the things their leaders tell them." - Pearl S. Buck, fully Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu
"The basic discovery bout any people is the discovery of the relationship between its men and women." - Pearl S. Buck, fully Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu
"The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born." - Pearl S. Buck, fully Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, also known by her Chinese name Sai Zhenzhu
"Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle at the onset." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, fully Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton
"The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service." - Mark Caine
"People do not understand liberty or majorities. The will of the majority is the will of a rabble. Democracy is leveling - this is inconsistent with true liberty." - John Caldwell Calhoun
"There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself." - Andrew Carnegie
"An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned, if the accession be sudden; he is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder; people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so." - Richard Cecil
"Examples is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh." - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
"As accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him more sensible, and soon he think himself so." - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury
"Atheism can benefit no class of people; neither the unfortunate, whom it bereaves of hope, nor the prosperous, whose joys it renders insipid, nor the soldier, of whom it makes a coward, nor the woman whose beauty and sensibility it mars, nor the mother, who has a son to lose, nor the rulers of men, who have no surer pledge of the fidelity of their subjects than religion." - François-René de Chateaubriand, fully François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
"People generally quarrel because they cannot argue." - G. K. Chesterton, fully Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"The time, the people, and the individual converge only once." - Hélène Cixous
"Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people." - Grover Cleveland, fully Stephen Grover Cleveland
"Art-for art's sake (and) art-for-people's sake are equally ridiculous. I suggest art for God's sake." - Jean Cocteau
"Vanity is a strong temptation to lying; it makes people magnify their merit, over-flourish their family, and tell strange stories of their interest and acquaintance." - Jeremy Collier
"People blame their environment. There is one thing to blame - and only one -- themselves." - Robert Collier
"People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first." - David H. Comins
"People want riches; they need fulfillment." - Robert Conkin, aka Bob Conkin
"Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those who do." - Cyril Connolly, fully Cyril Vernon Connolly
"They believe their words. Everybody shows a respectful deference to certain sounds that he and his fellows can make. But about feelings people really know nothing. We talk with indignation or enthusiasm; we talk about oppression, cruelty, crime, devotion, self-sacrifice, virtue, and we know very little beyond the words." - Joseph Conrad, born Teodor Josef Konrad Korzeniowski
"The greatest asset of any nation is the spirit of its people, and the greatest danger that can menace any nation is the breakdown of that spirit - the will to win and the courage to work." - George B. Cortelyou, fully George Bruce Cortelyou
"You do not need to be loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you will never lose." - Jo Coudert
"People sometimes refer to higher education as the higher learning, but colleges and universities are much more than the knowledge factories; they are testaments to man's perennial struggle to make a better world for himself, his children, and his children's children. This, indeed, is their sovereign purpose. They are great fortifications against ignorance and irrationality; but they are more than places of higher learning - they are centers and symbols of man's higher yearning." - William H. Cowley
"When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do, so long as what they want isn't dangerously unlawful, stupidly unsociable or obviously impossible. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't." - James Cozzens, fully James Gould Cozzens
"No man has any right to rule who is not better than the people over whom he rules." - Cyrus the Great, aka Cyrus the Elder, Cyrus II or Cyrus of Persia NULL