Author: E. B. White

Quotes

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

- E. B. White

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

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

- E. B. White

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

- E. B. White

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.

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

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

- 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.

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

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

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

- E. B. White

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

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

- E. B. White

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

- E. B. White

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