E. B. White Quotes (72 Quotes)

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix things up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

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.

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.

All poets who, when reading from their own works, experience a choked feeling, are major. For that matter, all poets who read from their own works are major, whether they choke or not.

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

It should restate and clarify the social dilemma and the political pickle. Once in a while it does, and you get a quick glimpse of its potential.

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

A writer is like a bean plant he has his day and then becomes stringy.

Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.