Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
Thornton Wilder
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
Hope
Fear
Thinking
Fortified
Bows
Inevitable
Attitude
More quotes by Thornton Wilder
Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.
Thornton Wilder
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton Wilder
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Thornton Wilder
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
Thornton Wilder
There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.
Thornton Wilder
Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
Thornton Wilder
Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.
Thornton Wilder
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
Thornton Wilder
Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
Thornton Wilder
When you're at war, you think about a better life when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
Thornton Wilder
Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
Thornton Wilder
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Thornton Wilder
I was an old man when I was 12 and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
Thornton Wilder
The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
Thornton Wilder
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.
Thornton Wilder
Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.
Thornton Wilder
The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.
Thornton Wilder
We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.
Thornton Wilder
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
Thornton Wilder
Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
Thornton Wilder
