What did Edith Wharton mean by: Inkstands and tea-cups are never as full as when one upsets them. - Edith Wharton Novelist · United Copy
+ The worst of doing one’s duty was that it apparently unfitted one for doing anything else. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edith Wharton, Duty, Limitations, Responsibility, 0 - Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ The only thing to do is to hug one’s friends tight and do one’s job. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edith Wharton, Friendship, Hug, 0 - Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edith Wharton, Growth, Resilience, Success, 0 - Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edith Wharton, Balance, Risk, 0 - Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ Her failure was a useful preliminary to success. Feraz Zeid, August 24, 2023December 24, 2023, Edith Wharton, God, 0 - Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ And you’ll sit beside me, and we’ll look, not at visions, but at realities. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edith Wharton, Appreciate, Companionship, Reflection, 0 - Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ We ought to be opening a bottle of wine! Feraz Zeid, September 21, 2023December 24, 2023, Edith Wharton, Bottles, Opening, Wine, 0 - Edith Wharton Novelist · United
+ The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form. Feraz Zeid, December 14, 2023January 10, 2024, Edith Wharton, Form, 0 - Edith Wharton Novelist · United
When I found out I was pregnant, I was over the moon about it, but I was upset I wasn’t married! - Jennifer Ellison
We should not be upset that others hide the truth from us, when we hide it so often from ourselves. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Change is upsetting. Repetition is tedious. Three cheers for variation! - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
Meanness is the one thing I do get upset about on those rare occasions when I see it. - Maya Soetoro-Ng Teacher/Educator
The strips are nearly effortless unless I am really emotionally upset, a wreck. - Lynda Barry Cartoonist and author · USA
