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E. B. White Quotes


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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

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

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

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

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

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

When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.

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

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.