3 December 2020 E. B. White Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
3 December 2020 E. B. White I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
3 December 2020 E. B. White Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
3 December 2020 E. B. White To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
3 December 2020 E. B. White Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
3 December 2020 E. B. White I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
3 December 2020 E. B. White Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
3 December 2020 E. B. White When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
3 December 2020 E. B. White Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
3 December 2020 E. B. White It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
3 December 2020 E. B. White English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.
3 December 2020 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 of his acceptance.
3 December 2020 E. B. White The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
