42 Quotations by Thornton Wilder
- 21. Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the im ...
- 22. Many plays are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
- 23. Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterd ...
- 24. Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
- 25. My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your ...
- 26. Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars ...
- 27. That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any l ...
- 28. The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so.
- 29. The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.
- 30. The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which ...
- 31. The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resour ...
- 32. The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith t ...
- 33. The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we do. It is a purer act of faith than ...
- 34. The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, "Oh, now I've ...
- 35. The theatre is supremely fitted to say: "Behold! These things are." Yet most dramatists employ it to ...
- 36. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the ...
- 37. We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
- 38. We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sove ...
- 39. When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ...
- 40. Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
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