Quote #50
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
More from Thornton Wilder
- Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
- Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condit…
- It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
- Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
- In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.
- Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
- If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
- For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?