This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
"A hungry dog will bring a lion down." - Turkish Proverbs
"If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good." - Thomas J. Watson, fully Thomas John Watson, Sr.
"I think we are in the end game. The next six to nine months are going to tell whether we can produce a decent outcome in Iraq." - Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
"We're at the beginning of, I think, the decisive, I would say, six months in Iraq, OK, because I feel like this election — you know, I felt from the beginning Iraq was going to be ultimately, Charlie, what Iraqis make of it." - Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
"What the flattening of the world means is that we are now connecting all the knowledge centers on the planet together into a single global network." - Thomas L. Friedman, fully Thomas Lauren Friedman
"Keeping another person waiting is a basic tactic for defining him as inferior and oneself as superior." - Thomas Szasz, fully Thomas Stephen Szasz
"Character shows itself apart from genius as a special thing. The first point of measurement of any man is that of quality." - Thomas Wentworth Higginson
"In the last analysis, my fellow countrymen, as we in America would be the first to claim, a people are responsible for the acts of government" - Woodrow Wilson, fully Thomas Woodrow Wilson
"A purpose is the eternal condition of success." - Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
"The evolution of society is substantially a process of mental adaptation on the part of individuals under the stress of circumstances which will no longer tolerate habits of thought formed under and conforming to a different set of circumstances in the past." - Thorstein Veblen, fully Thorstein Bunde Veblen, born Torsten Bunde Veblen
"Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with the institutions of others. We do not copy our neighbors, but are an example to them. It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few. But while the law secures equal justice to all alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognized; and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as the reward of merit. Neither is poverty a bar, but a man may benefit his country whatever be the obscurity of his condition." - Thucydides NULL
"No Lama knows where the ber-chhen will hurt him until he puts it on." - Tibetan Proverbs
"When the individual's behavior and consciousness get hooked to a routine sequence of external actions, he is a dead robot, and it is time for him to die and be reborn. Time to "drop out," "turn on," and "tune in." This period of robotization is called the Kali Yuga, the Age of Strife and Empire..." - Timothy Leary, fully Timothy Francis Leary
"I never take advice from anyone more messed up than I am." - Tom Hopkins
"Certainly that sputterless little candle-flame of the mediocre mind known as 'common sense' has never produced anything worth celebrating." - Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
"He retired to a resting place less convenient to the wolve kitchens." - Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
"It is more important to be free than to be happy." - Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
"Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic." - Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
"Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter." - Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
"A grievous burden was thy birth to me; Tetchy and wayward was thy infancy; Thy schooldays frightful, desp'rate, wile and furious; Thy prime of manhood daring, bold, and venturous; Thy age confirmed, proud, subtle, sly, and bloody, More mild, but yet more harmful--kind in hatred. Richard III, Act iv, Scene 4" - William Shakespeare
"A maid that paragons description and wild fame; one that excels the quirks of blazoning pens, and in the essential vesture of creation does tire the ingener. Othello, Act ii, Scene 1" - William Shakespeare
"A merry heart goes all the day, your sad tires in a mile-a. A Winter’s Tale, Act iv, Scene 3" - William Shakespeare
"A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. She’s a stubborn little brat. Romeo and Juliet, Act iv, Scene 2" - William Shakespeare
"Ah, do not, when my heart hath 'scoped this sorrow." - William Shakespeare
"And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges." - William Shakespeare
"And whatsomever else shall hap tonight, give it an understanding but no tongue, I will requit your love. So, fare your well. My lord, he hath importuned me with love, in honourable fashion. Hamlet, Act I, Scene 2" - William Shakespeare
"ANTONIO: Where is the master, boatswain? BOATSWAIN: Do you not hear him? You mar our labour: keep your cabins; you do assist the storm. Gonzalo: Nay, good, be patient. Boatswain: When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roarers for the name of king? To cabin! silence! Trouble us not. The Tempest, Act I, Scene 1" - William Shakespeare
"Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat." - William Shakespeare
"Bait the hook well! This fish will bite." - William Shakespeare
"Be not self-will'd, for thou art much too fair to be death's conquest and make worms thine heir." - William Shakespeare
"But the full sum of me is the sum of something--which, to term in gross, is an unlessoned girl, unschooled, unpractised; happy in this, she is not yet so old but she may learn; happier than this, she is not bred so dull but she can learn; happiest of all, is that her gentle spirit commits itself to yours to be directed, as from her lord, her governor, her king. Merchant of Vewnice, Act iii, Scene 2" - William Shakespeare
"But there is no such man; for, brother, men can counsel and speak comfort to that grief which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, their counsel turns to passion, which before would give preceptial medicine to rage, fetter strong madness in a silken thread, charm ache with air and agony with words. Much Ado About Nothing, Act v, Scene 1" - William Shakespeare
"Crowns have their compass--length of days their date-- Triumphs their tomb--felicity, her fate-- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker. King Henry VIII" - William Shakespeare
"Demand me nothing: what you know, you know: from this time forth I never will speak word. Iago, scene ii" - William Shakespeare
"Doth it not show vilely in me to desire small beer? Henry IV, Act ii, Scene 2" - William Shakespeare
"Doubt that the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love. Hamlet, Act ii, Scene 2" - William Shakespeare
"Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will." - William James
"In this world truth can wait; she is used to it." - Douglas William Jerrold
"It is the habit of mediocre minds to condemn all that is beyond their grasp." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
"The art of using moderate abilities to advantage wins praise, and often acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
"The head is always the dupe of the heart." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
"The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers." - François de La Rochefoucauld, François VI, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac, Francois A. F. Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
"O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again. Henry VIII (Wolsey at III, ii)" - William Shakespeare
"O now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind farewell content." - William Shakespeare
"O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year. The Merry Wives of Windsor (Anne Page at III, iv)" - William Shakespeare
"Out alas! she's cold, Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated. Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field." - William Shakespeare
"The illness I suffer from is serious and persistent and my life may be over any day. Whenever I think about you, I become sad and depressed. In my leisure time I have written Precepts for My Daughters in seven chapters. My daughters, each of you make yourself a copy; perhaps it will be of some use and benefit to you. Do your very best once you have left home!" - Ban Zhao, courtesy name Huiban
"When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves." - Eleanora Duse, aka Duse