The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. — E. B. White Change Copy Share Image
No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring. — E. B. White Change Copy Share Image
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Children hold spring so tightly in their brown fists-just as grownups, who are less sure of it, hold it in their hearts. — 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,… — E. B. White Acceptance Copy Share Image
The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting… — E. B. White 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
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 Belief Copy Share Image
A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract… — E. B. White Abstract Copy Share Image
It isn't silence you can cut with a knife any more, it's interchange of ideas. Intelligent discussion of practically everything is what… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is… — E. B. White Breezy Copy Share Image
Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their… — E. B. White Accusation 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
I always write a thing first and think about it afterward, which is not a bad procedure because the easiest way to… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Government is the thing. Law is the thing. Not brotherhood, not international cooperation, not security councils that can stop war only by… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The South is the land of the sustained sibilant. Everywhere, for the appreciative visitor, the letter "s" insinuates itself in the scene:… — E. B. White Appreciative 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 Book 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
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
Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning… — E. B. White Adornment 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
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
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
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
When snow accumulates week after week, month after month, it works curious miracles. — E. B. White Copy Share Image
The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. — E. B. White Christmas Copy Share Image
Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America? — E. B. White America 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's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another. — E. B. White 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
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
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. — E. B. White Facts 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
His words span rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long. — 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
