Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune. — E. B. White Dark Copy Share Image
Commuter - one who spends his life In riding to and from his wife; A man who shaves and takes a train… — E. B. White Fitness Copy Share Image
Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions. — E. B. White Business Copy Share Image
Advice from this elderly practitioner is to forget publishers and just roll a sheet of copy paper into your machine and get… — E. B. White Advice Copy Share Image
“When we slid the body into the grave, we both were shaken to the core. The loss we felt was not the… — E. B. White Death Copy Share Image
Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The most puzzling thing about TV is the steady advance of the sponsor across the line that has always separated news from… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Too many things on my mind, said Wilbur. Well, said the goose, that's not my trouble. I have nothing at all on… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
There is no trick to it. If you like to write and want to write, you write, no matter where you are… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with… — E. B. White Book Copy Share Image
“Winter will pass, the days will lengthen, the ice will melt in the pasture pond. The song sparrow will return and sing,… — E. B. White Flower Copy Share Image
In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally… — E. B. White Breaths Copy Share Image
When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen through the… — E. B. White America Copy Share Image
I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and… — E. B. White Barber shop Copy Share Image
I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and… — E. B. White Alive Copy Share Image
A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go… — E. B. White Book Copy Share Image
A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy. — E. B. White Anatomy Copy Share Image
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. — E. B. White Friend Copy Share Image
When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair. — E. B. White Chance Copy Share Image
Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one. — E. B. White Clarity Copy Share Image
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. — E. B. White Farmer Copy Share Image
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. — E. B. White Facts Copy Share Image
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. — E. B. White Circus Copy Share Image
By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little… — E. B. White Charlotte 's web Copy Share Image
It sometimes takes days, even weeks, before a dog's nerves tire. In the case of terriers it can run into months. — E. B. White Animal Copy Share Image
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. — E. B. White Agreement Copy Share Image
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. — E. B. White Children Copy Share Image
Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Familiarity is the thing-the sense of belonging. It grants exemption from all evil, all shabbiness. — E. B. White Belonging Copy Share Image
The theme of 'Charlotte's Web' is that a pig shall be saved, and I have an idea that somewhere deep inside me… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise… — E. B. White Business Copy Share Image
If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Television will enormously enlarge the eye's range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
