Laura Ingalls Wilder quote: "I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!"

It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones th...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was leve...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Mr. Wilder says he would rather have me help than any man he ever sawed with. And, believe me, I lea...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura h...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

The path that went by the little house had become a road. Almost every day Laura and Mary stopped th...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them uprigh...
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

There the wild animals wandered and fed as though they were in a pasture that stretched much farther...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself cou...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had ha...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the or...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Pa did not like a country so old and worn out that the hunting was poor. He wanted to go west. For t...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound t...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Home is the nicest word there is.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

There is no comfort anywhere for anyone who dreads to go home.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of wha...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

As the years pass, I am coming more and more to understand that it is the common, everyday blessings...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after al...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little h...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadf...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remem...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don'...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Wild animals would not stay in a country where there were so many people. Pa did not like to stay, e...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little gir...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

But in the east the sky was pale and through the gray woods came lanterns with wagons and horses, br...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Everything from the little house was in the wagon, except the beds and tables and chairs. They did n...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Laura felt a warmth inside her. It was very small, but it was strong. It was steady, like a tiny lig...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to ha...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

The wind was rising and wildly screaming. ... thousands of rabbits were running.... Snakes rippled a...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

She could not think what it would be to teach school twelve miles away from home, along among strang...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

This earthly life is a battle,' said Ma. 'If it isn't one thing to contend with, it's another. It al...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

The trouble with organizing a thing is that pretty soon folks get to paying more attention to the or...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

These times are too progressive. Everything has changed too fast. Railroads and telegraphs and keros...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Persons appear to us according to the light we throw upon them from our own minds. -Laura Ingalls Wi...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

There is nothing wrong with God's plan that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

He knew you could never teach an animal anything if you struck it, or even shouted at it angrily. He...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

There's no great loss without some small gain.
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Then the sun peeped over the edge of the prairie and the whole world glittered. Every tiniest thing ...
LAURA INGALLS WILDER

Because DSL helps us to retain customers, it also makes it less likely that these customers will sig...
BOB INGALLS

We passed 1 million homes at end of 2004. And we will have 3 million at the end of 2005. We expect t...
BOB INGALLS

We have completed a deal with every major provider of content.
BOB INGALLS

About half the people who use the Internet are dial-up customers. Price is the primary barrier that ...
BOB INGALLS

We're breaking down the price barrier for people who want high-speed Internet service but have not h...
BOB INGALLS

Every dial-up customer we convert to D.S.L. takes one customer off the table for cable modem. We hav...
BOB INGALLS

Getting 20 percent penetration we think is achievable, and that would be the first hurdle we are loo...
BOB INGALLS

It's a binary thing, if you will. You either get back on the horse or not. (My wreck) really didn't ...
DEREK INGALLS

There were a number of reasons why I was back. Part of it is my love for racing. My preference was t...
DEREK INGALLS

Because of continued work delays the board declared in April 2005 that the work had been abandoned. ...
HARRY INGALLS

Over the course of the past 12 months the operations division of the district has studied utility co...
HARRY INGALLS

The top three bidders are here tonight to give further information about their bids and what they pl...
HARRY INGALLS

The mechanical work will be under warranty for one year. I feel confident this group is going to wor...
HARRY INGALLS

Successful completion of the project should have a significant impact on utility costs for these two...
HARRY INGALLS

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
JOHN JAMES INGALLS

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
JOHN JAMES INGALLS

I knock unbidden once at every gate-- If sleeping, wake--if feasting, rise before I turn away-...
JOHN JAMES INGALLS

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerog...
JOHN J. INGALLS

In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerog...
JOHN JAMES INGALLS

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
JOHN JAMES INGALLS

I never thought of it as God. I didn't know what to call it. I don't believe in devils, but ...
GENE WILDER

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you...
BILLY WILDER

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on y...
THORNTON WILDER

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resour...
THORNTON WILDER

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

The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.
THORNTON WILDER

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER

The best director is the one you don't see.
BILLY WILDER

I have ten commandments. The first nine are, thou shalt not bore. The tenth is, thou shalt have righ...
BILLY WILDER

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.
BILLY WILDER

They've tried to manufacture other Marilyn Monroes and they will undoubtedly keep trying. But it...
BILLY WILDER

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
BILLY WILDER

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
BILLY WILDER

He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
BILLY WILDER

If there's anything I hate more than not being taken seriously, it's being taken too serious...
BILLY WILDER

I've met a lot of hardboiled eggs in my time, but you're twenty minutes.
BILLY WILDER

It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful.
BILLY WILDER

My Aunt Minnie would always be punctual and never hold up production, but who would pay to see my Au...
BILLY WILDER

Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood.
BILLY WILDER

We are on the track of something absolutely mediocre.
BILLY WILDER

Now, what is it which makes a scene interesting? If you see a man coming through a doorway, it means...
BILLY WILDER

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
BILLY WILDER

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.
BILLY WILDER

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

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your ...
THORNTON WILDER

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, th...
THORNTON WILDER

If Bronze Bomber got loose in the streets, it won't be something nice.
DEONTAY WILDER

Once I knock Szpilka out, I want all the Polish fans to come on the 'Bronze Bomber' train as...
DEONTAY WILDER

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
BILLY WILDER

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
BILLY WILDER

Marilyn was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never me...
BILLY WILDER

I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as ...
BILLY WILDER

If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.
BILLY WILDER

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ...
BILLY WILDER

Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece...
DOUGLAS WILDER

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars...
THORNTON WILDER

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhoo...
THORNTON WILDER

If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.
BILLY WILDER

I don't go to church. Kneeling bags my nylons.
BILLY WILDER

What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the wa...
DOUGLAS WILDER

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island.
THORNTON WILDER

The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith t...
THORNTON WILDER

Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and ...
THORNTON WILDER

Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous...
THORNTON WILDER

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the im...
THORNTON WILDER

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, th...
THORNTON WILDER

He has Van Gogh’s ear for music.
BILLY WILDER

When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For examp...
WILDER PENFIELD

The problem of neurology is to understand man himself.
WILDER PENFIELD

...I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of th...
WILDER PENFIELD

I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
THORNTON WILDER

France is the country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you cannot tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER

A play visibly represents pure existing.
THORNTON WILDER

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of th...
THORNTON WILDER

The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.
THORNTON WILDER

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which ...
THORNTON WILDER

It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adve...
THORNTON WILDER

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
THORNTON WILDER

Brain surgery is a terrible profession. If I did not feel it will become different in my lifetime, I...
WILDER PENFIELD

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the ...
THORNTON WILDER

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your ...
THORNTON WILDER

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of...
THORNTON WILDER

Rest, with nothing else, results in rust. It corrodes the mechanisms of the brain. The rhubarb that ...
WILDER PENFIELD

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, 'Oh, now I've...
THORNTON WILDER

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
THORNTON WILDER

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
BILLY WILDER

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles ...
BILLY WILDER

I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
BILLY WILDER

Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring p modest...
THORNTON WILDER

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you ...
THORNTON WILDER

Excuses are the nails used to build a house of failure.
DON WILDER

Many plays-certainly mine-are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures o...
THORNTON WILDER

The world is not based on fairness. Human beings can rise to fairness, can administer something that...
GENE WILDER

I always picture my grandkids looking at their grandfather and saying, 'My grandfather was the l...
DEONTAY WILDER

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
BILLY WILDER

Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed woul...
DOUGLAS WILDER

Success is a terrible thing and a wonderful thing. If you can enjoy it, it's wonderful. If it st...
GENE WILDER

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.
BILLY WILDER

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
THORNTON WILDER

A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.
BILLY WILDER

I was raised by both parents up to 17. We had a good family. We had a middle class family, good teac...
DEONTAY WILDER

It's a great feeling to be the WBC champ of the world, but there's more to gain from this.
DEONTAY WILDER

My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I thin...
GENE WILDER

I trust if your life is right, the right things will happen at the right time. If the chords are in ...
GENE WILDER

But we have to learn to be free. We have to, Nell. Doesn't mean happy all the time, or okay all the ...
JASINDA WILDER

It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of th...
THORNTON WILDER

What I learned from Mel Brooks was audacity - in performance as in life. Maybe you go too far, but t...
GENE WILDER

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin p...
DOUGLAS WILDER

Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
THORNTON WILDER

Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
THORNTON WILDER

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arres...
THORNTON WILDER

I'm not a natural writer like, let's say - I'm not talking about Arthur Miller; that'...
GENE WILDER

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethov...
BILLY WILDER

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

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
THORNTON WILDER

Wherever you come near the human race there's layers and layers of nonsense.
THORNTON WILDER

Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high o...
THORNTON WILDER

Where there is an unknowable there is a promise.
THORNTON WILDER

I wanted to do - there was this film called 'Magic' that Anthony Hopkins did. And the direct...
GENE WILDER

When we got back to my room, Gilda gave the dog a bowl of water and set some newspaper down in the b...
GENE WILDER

Many who have dedicated their life to love, can tell us less about this subject than a child who los...
THORNTON WILDER

Healthy debate has been replaced by automatic sensors that eliminate the need for actual talking dur...
DOUGLAS WILDER

I'm going to tell you what my religion is. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Pe...
GENE WILDER

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing su...
GENE WILDER

During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many ...
DOUGLAS WILDER

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different fro...
THORNTON WILDER

Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
THORNTON WILDER

Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, youneed at least four of them, and ...
BILLY WILDER

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.
BILLY WILDER

The unencumbered stage encourages the truth operative in everyone. The less seen, the more heard. Th...
THORNTON WILDER

Many plays, certainly mine, are like blank cheques. The actors and directors put their own signature...
THORNTON WILDER

We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to ...
THORNTON WILDER

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being...
THORNTON WILDER

The theatre is supremely fitted to say: Behold! These things are. Yet most dramatists employ it to s...
THORNTON WILDER

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.
THORNTON WILDER

France is the only country where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper.
BILLY WILDER

Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the...
THORNTON WILDER

Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous lia...
THORNTON WILDER

There are some more expensive brands that I like, but they're not as attainable at this stage in lif...
CHERRYN WILDER

It used to be that we in films were the lowest form of art. Now we have something to look down on. (...
BILLY WILDER

I had a lot of great moments with David Haye.
DEONTAY WILDER

I was born a leader, never a follower. I never felt peer pressure. If the group goes left, I go righ...
DEONTAY WILDER

My mother was suffering every day of her life, and what right did I have to be happy if she was suff...
GENE WILDER

People have to realize that God has blessed me with power. He hasn't got me this far for no reas...
DEONTAY WILDER

He still has some working documents to sort out before we can offer him a contract, but we certainly...
VALERIE WILDER

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.
THORNTON WILDER

Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly dis...
DOUGLAS WILDER

France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper
BILLY WILDER

Many voted in 2008 with the desire to see racism and racists humiliated by having a qualified black ...
DOUGLAS WILDER

She closes her eyes, and I can see the moisture. She’s deep-breathing again, and I notice her hand...
JASINDA WILDER

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
THORNTON WILDER

When I went to college, I went to a junior college. I wanted to go to the University of Alabama but ...
DEONTAY WILDER

There is no auto pilot in U.S.-China relations, but relations have matured to the point where neithe...
DENNIS WILDER

My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a...
GENE WILDER

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
THORNTON WILDER

I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!

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I always have been a busy person, doing my own housework, helping the Man of the Place when help could not be obtained; but I love to work. And it is a pleasure to write. And, oh, I do just love to play!

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