Thornton Wilder Famous Quotes



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...

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.


Thornton Wilder Quotations






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"I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."
Adlai E Jr Stevenson

"There never was a good war, or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin

A nation that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.
Martin Luther King Jr

"Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes."
Clare Ansberry

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn't.
L L Henderson

"A kiss, is the physical transgression of the mental connection which has already taken place."
Tanielle Naus

Let your desires be ruled by reason.
Cicero

That's the fourth extra base hit for the Padres -- two doubles and a triple.
Jerry Coleman

"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."
Kahlil Gibran

"Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke."
Benjamin Disraeli