I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management. — E. B. White Corporate Copy Share Image
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. — E. B. White Ferris wheel Copy Share Image
The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self. — E. B. White Communication Copy Share Image
Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion. — E. B. White Cities 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
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
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
Mother: It's broccoli, dear. --- Child: I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it. — E. B. White 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
The world likes humor, but it treats it patronizingly. It decorates its serious artists with laurel, and its wags with Brussels sprouts. — E. B. White Art Copy Share Image
A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have… — E. B. White Bewildered 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
It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck. No one should come to New… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
My prose style at this time was a stomach-twisting blend of the Bible, Carl Sandburg, H.L. Mencken, Jeffrey Farnol, Christopher Morley, Samuel… — E. B. White Bible Copy Share Image
In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature… — E. B. White Attention Copy Share Image
It seemed to me that I should have a desk, even though I had no real need for a desk. I was… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor)… — E. B. White Desire 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
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you.… — E. B. White Birth Copy Share Image
There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will… — 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
I discovered a long time ago that writing of the small things of the day, the trivial matters of the heart, the… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined… — E. B. White Approach 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
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
In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to… — E. B. White Age Copy Share Image
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. — E. B. White Cat Copy Share Image
Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead. — E. B. White Comedy Copy Share Image
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. — E. B. White Democracy Copy Share Image
“I believed then as I do now, in the goodness of the published word: it seemed to contain an essential goodness, like… — 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 Bounds Copy Share Image
Life's meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same. — E. B. White Funny Copy Share Image
Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply… — 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 Architect Copy Share Image
The vision of milk and honey, it comes and goes. But the odor of cooking goes on forever. — E. B. White Comes and goes Copy Share Image
