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E B White
Computing machines perhaps...
Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of...
Analyzing humor is...
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of...
Genius is more...
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
Source: Lime,...
There's no limit...
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to...
I arise in...
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the...
A good farmer...
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
From three to...
From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be...
A candidate could...
A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a...
Be obscure clearly....
Be obscure clearly.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler,...
A man who...
A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist -- nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A...
I see nothing...
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
Source: In The...
DEMOCRACY: n: The...
DEMOCRACY: n: The recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the...
Luck is not...
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
Source:...
She would write...
She would write 8 or 10 words, then draw her gun and shoot them down.
Source: On...
One of the...
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
Source: Essays of E. B....
I would feel...
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and...
There is a...
There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream,...
Writing is an...
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
Source: In
I sometimes doubt...
I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve his workroom by so much as a dictionary: one thing leads to...
A poet's pleasure...
A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from...