Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.
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
Also
Littles
Shatter
Little
Slight
World
Enormous
Difference
Amount
Differences
Money
More quotes by 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
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
What is essential does not die but clarifies.
Thornton Wilder
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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
you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life
Thornton Wilder
There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
Thornton Wilder
I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
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
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
Thornton Wilder
Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
Thornton Wilder
A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.
Thornton Wilder
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
Thornton Wilder
A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
Thornton Wilder
The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
Thornton Wilder
But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.
Thornton Wilder
Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
Thornton Wilder
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
Thornton Wilder
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton Wilder
A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.
Thornton Wilder
