E. B. White Quotes

E. B. White Quotes

E. B. White Quotes

Consider the following quotes by E. B. White:

"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war."

"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time."

"People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust."

"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."

"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult."

"Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind."