Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
Wisdom
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Quotes by Edna Ferber
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Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
Wisdom
A closed mind is a dying mind.
Wisdom
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
Life
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
Wisdom
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Life
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
Wisdom
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
Wisdom
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
Life
Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
Wisdom
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
Love
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
Wisdom
It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
Education
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
Wisdom