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E B White
Everything in life...
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
Source: 'One...
Whatever else an...
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of...
I have occasionally...
I have occasionally had the exquisite thrill of putting my finger on a little capsule of truth, and heard it give a...
Weather is a...
Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows...
Shocking writing is...
Shocking writing is like murder: the questions the jury must decide are the questions of motive and...
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....