101 ordspråk av Thornton Wilder

US  Thornton Wilder

Thornton Wilder föddes den April 17th 1897 och dog den 7 December 1975 - US writer
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 Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

 Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder

 My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your plate

 My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate - that's my philosophy

 Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

 Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.

 Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

 One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.

 Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home

 Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

 Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

 Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great works at some moment every day

 The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.

 The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

 The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.


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