Thornton Wilder

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

— Thornton Wilder

#cream #enjoy #ice #ice cream #inquire

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#another #cases #childhood #convinced #essential

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#having #home #safe #were #wish

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#every #good #good thing #stands #thing

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#faith #hope #like #nothing #ridiculous

But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#among #beings #comes #decide #everybody

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#every #every day #great #great work #hearing

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. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#every #excellent #fought #good #i

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#island #laureate #love #poet #poet laureate

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#beholder #eye #eye of the beholder #landscape #moves