E. B. White
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
-E. B. White
age
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
-E. B. White
age
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
-E. B. White
car
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
-E. B. White
change
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
-E. B. White
dad
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
-E. B. White
education
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
-E. B. White
faith
Be obscure clearly.
-E. B. White
funny
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
-E. B. White
funny
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
-E. B. White
future
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
-E. B. White
good
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
-E. B. White
great
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
-E. B. White
health
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
-E. B. White
humor
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
-E. B. White
humor
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
-E. B. White
intelligence
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
-E. B. White
life
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
-E. B. White
men
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
-E. B. White
morning
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
-E. B. White
nature
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
-E. B. White
politics
The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
-E. B. White
power
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
-E. B. White
sad
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
-E. B. White
science
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
-E. B. White
time
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
-E. B. White
time
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
-E. B. White
war
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
-E. B. White
work
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
-E. B. White
christmas
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