Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. – Edna Ferber
I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours. – Edna Ferber
Life cant defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writers lover until death. – Edna Ferber
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childish days; that can recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth; that can transport the sailor and the traveller, thousands of miles away, back to his own fire-side and his quiet home! – Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers