Thornton Wilder
"Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow."
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"Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow."
"المال كالسّماد؛ لا قيمة له ما لم يُنثَر ليُشجّع البراعم الفتيّة على النّمو."
Thornton Wilder
The Matchmaker
"“Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.”"
"القيادة لمن أحب الخير العام وتأهل وتدرب على إدارته."
Thornton Wilder
The Ides of March
"The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose."
"كلما اضطررت لاتخاذ قراراتك وحيدًا، ازداد وعيك بحريتك في الاختيار."
Thornton Wilder
"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day."
"اطلب السمو بمطالعة الأعمال العظيمة وسماعها ورؤيتها في لحظة كل يوم."
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."
"نصيحتي لك ألا تسأل لمَ وإلى أين، بل استمتع ببوظتك ما دامت في صحنك."
Thornton Wilder
"Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she's a householder."
"الزواج رشوة تجعل مدبرة المنزل تظن أنها صاحبة الدار."
Thornton Wilder
"Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday."
"كم من أفنى عمره في دروب الحب، لا يخبرنا"
Thornton Wilder
"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."
"أعلم أن كل خير وفضل في هذا العالم يقف لحظة بلحظة على حد الخطر، ويجب أن يُناضل من أجله."
Thornton Wilder
"The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much."
"خير ما في الحيوان قلة كلامه."
Thornton Wilder
"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."
Thornton Wilder
"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."
Thornton Wilder
"If a man has no vices he's in great danger of making vices about his virtues and there's a spectacle."
Thornton Wilder
"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 miser who's no liar and the drunkard who's the benefactor of a whole city."
Thornton Wilder
"Comparisons of one's lot with others' teaches us nothing and enfeebles the will."
Thornton Wilder
"My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate."
Thornton Wilder
"We live in what is but we find 1 000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it."
Thornton Wilder
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