You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you. — E. B. White Comedy Copy Share Image
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. — E. B. White Luck Copy Share Image
I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
There is simply a better chance of doing well if the writer holds a steady course, enters the stream of English quietly,… — E. B. White Chance Copy Share Image
Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have. — E. B. White Democracy Copy Share Image
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this… — E. B. White Action Copy Share Image
Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. — E. B. White Comedy Copy Share Image
Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life. — E. B. White Inspirational Copy Share Image
Wilbur burst into tears. "I dont want to die," he moaned. "I want to stay alive, right here in my comfortable manure… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
New York is part of the natural world. I love the city, I love the country, and for the same reasons. The… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can't get it by breeding for it, and you can't… — E. B. White Accidents Copy Share Image
“To hear, in the short space of one week, a Scottish terrier booed by an audience and President Roosevelt criticized by Charles… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I guess I remembered clearest of all the early mornings, when the lake was cool and motionless, remembered how the bedroom smelled… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth… — E. B. White Brain Copy Share Image
Where I would like to discover facts, I find fancy. Where I would like to learn what I did, I learn only… — E. B. White Accuracy Copy Share Image
Being the owner of Dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“Surely the Board knows what democracy is. It is the line that forms on the right. It is the don’t in Don’t… — E. B. White America Copy Share Image
The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocating them… — E. B. White Adults Copy Share Image
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. Because I have the greatest respect for the… — E. B. White Books Copy Share Image
Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“One solution ... for the house of the future is to have a place called a ‘dirty room.’ This would be equipped… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy. — E. B. White Gardening Copy Share Image
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any… — E. B. White Comedy Copy Share Image
The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. — E. B. White Education Copy Share Image
All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open. — E. B. White Communication Copy Share Image
Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive. — E. B. White Alive Copy Share Image
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Mother: It's broccoli, dear. --- Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people. — E. B. White People Copy Share Image
