Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from E. B. White

E. B. White US author & humorist (1899 - 1985)


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- Loneliness is a strange gift.

E. B. White -
- I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.

E. B. White -
- Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

E. B. White - Some Remarks on Humor, introduction
- Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

E. B. White -
- If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But 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 -
- The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

E. B. White -
- 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 - New Yorker, July 3, 1944
- Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.