E. B. White Quotes

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, Morning, Hard

Be obscure clearly.
E. B. White

Funny, Clearly, Obscure

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E. B. White

Time, Great, Opinions

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

Intelligence, Whole, Often

It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
E. B. White

Good, True, Someone

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

Humor, Few, Interested

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
E. B. White

Mind, Since, Full

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

Funny, Life, Car

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, Time, Future

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. White

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
E. B. White

Christmas, Through, Difficult

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

Good, Nothing, Sense

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
E. B. White

Act, Fall, Victim

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

Science, Nothing, Space

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

Faith, Writing, Act

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

Politics, Time, Democracy

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

Men, Luck, Presence

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
E. B. White

Literature, Chickens

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

Trouble, System, Profit

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, Special, Problem

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
E. B. White

Work, Health, Bad

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.
E. B. White

Thought, Office, Writer

It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
E. B. White

Planet, Loyal, Club

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
E. B. White

Find, Play, Fall

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 11, 1899

Died: October 1, 1985

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