"Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think she’s a householder." ― Thornton Wilder Topic(s): Nature Tags: bribe, marriage More From Thornton Wilder "Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value." "It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness." "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." More In Nature "I was born on a farm. My strength has nothing to do with political apparatus. I get my strength from nature, from flowers."― Ariel Sharon "The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances."― Martha Washington "It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man’s insecurity before himself and before nature."― Albert Einstein