Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.
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
Finest
Travelers
Bridges
Gulf
Broke
Twentieth
Five
Noon
Chance
July
Traveler
Friday
Precipitated
Bridge
Peru
More quotes by Thornton Wilder
I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.
Thornton Wilder
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
Thornton Wilder
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
Thornton Wilder
Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
Thornton Wilder
All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
Thornton Wilder
Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
Thornton Wilder
Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
Thornton Wilder
Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
Thornton Wilder
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
Thornton Wilder
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton Wilder
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
Thornton Wilder
Heaven's my destination.
Thornton Wilder
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Thornton Wilder
Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
Thornton Wilder
There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.
Thornton Wilder
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
Thornton Wilder
Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
Thornton Wilder
That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.
Thornton Wilder
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Thornton Wilder