E.B. White Quotes

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.

People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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