--- title: "12 Firsts Quotes By E. B. White" description: "12 Firsts quotes by E. B. White. Plus more from E. B. White and more Firsts sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfd/e-b-white-1448_after-school_i-can-still-see-my-first-dog-for-six-yea_3188158.png" --- > [I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/i-can-still-see-my-first-dog-for-six-years-he-met-me-at-the-same/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfd/e-b-white-1448_after-school_i-can-still-see-my-first-dog-for-six-yea_3188158.png) > [A “fraternity” is the antithesis offraternity. The first (that is, the order or organization) is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/a-fraternity-is-the-antithesis-offraternity-the-first-that-is-the/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/412/e-b-white-1448_abstract_a-fraternity-is-the-antithesis-offratern_724081.jpg) > [Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means "sickening to contemplate"; the second means "sick at the stomach." Do not, therefore, say "I feel nauseous,"…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/nauseous-nauseated-the-first-means-sickening-to-contemplate-the/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/016/e-b-white-1448_contemplating_nauseous-nauseated-the-first-means-sicke_747332.png) > [Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/extreme-cold-when-it-first-arrives-seems-to-generate-cheerfulness-and/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac7/e-b-white-1448_alive_extreme-cold-when-it-first-arrives-seems_2276039.png) > [I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/i-have-always-felt-that-the-first-duty-of-a-writer-was-to-ascend-to/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8f/e-b-white-1448_certain_i-have-always-felt-that-the-first-duty-o_1203131.png) > [I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/i-always-write-a-thing-first-and-think-about-it-afterward-which-is/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/289/e-b-white-1448_firsts_i-always-write-a-thing-first-and-think-a_2134672.png) > [A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/a-fraternity-is-the-antithesis-of-fraternity-the-first-is-predicated/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84f/e-b-white-1448_abstract_a-fraternity-is-the-antithesis-of-frater_544720.png) > [Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/necessity-first-mothered-invention-now-invention-has-little-ones-of/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/655/e-b-white-1448_architect_necessity-first-mothered-invention-now-i_179828.png) > [Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/every-morning-i-awake-torn-between-a-desire-to-save-the-world-and-an/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd7/e-b-white-1448_awake_every-morning-i-awake-torn-between-a-des_171898.jpg) > [I have just been refining the room in which I sit, yet I sometimes doubt that a writer should refine or improve…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/i-have-just-been-refining-the-room-in-which-i-sit-yet-i-sometimes/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a4a/e-b-white-1448_chairs_i-have-just-been-refining-the-room-in-wh_768868.png) > [There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/there-are-roughly-three-new-yorks-there-is-first-the-new-york-of-the/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b0/e-b-white-1448_accepting_there-are-roughly-three-new-yorks-there_1070657.png) > [The Supreme Court said nothing about silliness, but I suspect it may play more of a role than one might suppose. People…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-supreme-court-said-nothing-about-silliness-but-i-suspect-it-may/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/261/e-b-white-1448_chains_the-supreme-court-said-nothing-about-sil_2309073.jpg) ## Other authors on Firsts ## More by E. B. White > [Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/writing-is-an-act-of-faith-not-a-trick-of-grammar/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [“To hear, in the short space of one week, a Scottish terrier booed by an audience and President Roosevelt criticized by Charles Lindbergh was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/to-hear-in-the-short-space-of-one-week-a-scottish-terrier-booed-by-an/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-sea-answers-all-questions-and-always-in-the-same-way-for-when-you/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/new-york-blends-the-gift-of-privacy-with-the-excitement-of/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-terror-of-the-atom-age-is-not-the-violence-of-the-new-power-but/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/when-my-wife-s-aunt-caroline-was-in-her-nineties-she-lived-with-us/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/sailors-have-an-expression-about-the-weather-they-say-the-weather-is/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/anyone-who-writes-down-to-children-is-simply-wasting-his-time-you/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/a-writer-should-concern-himself-with-whatever-absorbs-his-fancy-stirs/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/every-morning-i-awake-torn-between-a-desire-to-save-the-world-and-an/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/i-seldom-went-to-bed-before-two-or-three-o-clock-in-the-morning-on/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/necessity-first-mothered-invention-now-invention-has-little-ones-of/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-bonus-is-really-one-of-the-great-give-aways-in-business/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/there-s-no-limit-to-how-complicated-things-can-get-on-account-of-one/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) > [The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-critic-leaves-at-curtain-fall-to-find-in-starting-to-review-it-he/) [E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/firsts/e-b-white/#itemlist", "name": "12 Firsts Quotes By E. B. White", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "E. B. 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