Quote #18

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

More from Thornton Wilder

  1. My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate - that's my philosophy.
  2. Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishon…
  3. 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 m…
  4. Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the mis…
  5. I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize. So all that was going on and we never…
  6. 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 …
  7. That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those... of those abo…
  8. Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

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