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
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
When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we shall carve our initials in… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
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
Every American, to the last man, lays claim to a "sense" of humor and guards it as his most significant spiritual trait,… — 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
Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream,… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one… — 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 Copy Share Image
I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way… — E. B. White 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
There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I am a member of a party of one, and I live in an age of fear. Nothing lately has unsettled my… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis....… — 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 Copy Share Image
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Security, for me, took a tumble not when I read that there were Communists in Hollywood but when I read your editorial… — E. B. White 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 Lindbergh was… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
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… — E. B. White 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 beauty we… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan… — 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 to happen… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
