Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton More Quotes by Edith Newbold Jones Wharton More Quotes From Edith Newbold Jones Wharton If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton Life is the only real counselor wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. Edith Newbold Jones Wharton