Famous quotes containing the word wilder:
“Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think shes a householder.”
—Thornton Wilder (18971975)
“And, by the way, who estimates the value of the crop which nature yields in the still wilder fields unimproved by man? The crop of English hay is carefully weighed, the moisture calculated, the silicates and the potash; but in all dells and pond-holes in the woods and pastures and swamps grows a rich and various crop only unreaped by man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I know youre trying, Don. Were both trying. Youre trying not to drink and Im trying not to love you.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)
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