Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Quote by Thornton Wilder
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Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
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Thornton Wilder Quotes
- Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
- 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 condition of success.
- Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
- Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder.
- Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
- Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
- Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
- 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.
- When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
- Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
- 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.
Best Quotes
- I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
- The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.
- I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
- I used to get nervous, you know if my parents would come watch. And then I would get nervous if my friends came and watched. Today it's not a problem anymore actually, because now I enjoy it. I see that they, you know, respect me immensely, and I try to put on a good show and show that I can still play very good tennis.
- When I won in 2003, never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would win Wimbledon and have my kids seeing me lift the trophy, so this is pretty surreal. And yeah, I was almost shocked in the moment that it all came together so nicely.
- Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.
- My dad said if you become a tennis professional just make sure you get into the top hundred, because you have to make a little bit of money. You make a living so you can pay your coaching and, you know, your travels.
- When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.
- When there is nothing to talk about don't force yourself to say anything because it may land you in trouble.
- It’s crazy how people say, "I rely on facts," And believe thier television sets.
- Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town.