21 Quotations by E. B. White
- 1. A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except ...
- 2. A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove ...
- 3. Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
- 4. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the ...
- 5. Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
- 6. Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
- 7. Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which ...
- 8. Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discoura ...
- 9. I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometim ...
- 10. I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
- 11. I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can ...
- 12. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be ...
- 13. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
- 14. It should restate and clarify the social dilemma and the political pickle. Once in a while it does, ...
- 15. Loneliness is a strange gift.
- 16. Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
- 17. The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not ca ...
- 18. The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
- 19. Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mou ...
- 20. Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, t ...
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