E B White Quotes

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

~ E. B. White

Farmer Good Handy Less Man More Nor Nothing Sense Than

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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

~ E. B. White

Bean Day Gets He His Like Little Plant Then Writer

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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

~ E. B. White

Been Bent Days Effect Ill Knowingly Need No-One Once Over Skin Walks Weather Wet Who Without Write

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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

~ E. B. White

Analyzing Dies Few Few People Frog Humor Interested Like People

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Be obscure clearly.

~ E. B. White

Clearly Obscure

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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

~ E. B. White

Act Circus Commas Fall Knives New New Yorker Precision Victim Yorker

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

~ E. B. White

Democracy Half More People Right Suspicion Than Time

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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

~ E. B. White

Across Education English Getting Judgment Like Luck Mere More Sheer Sometimes Street Taste Than Usage

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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

~ E. B. White

Car Else Everything Get Life Somewhere Somewhere Else You

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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

~ E. B. White

Cracked Found Genius More Often Pot Than Whole

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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.

~ E. B. White

Arise Between Day Desire Enjoy Hard Improve Makes Morning Plan Torn World

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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

~ E. B. White

Amendment Assume Cat Editorial First First Amendment I Can Office Only Over Thought Tripped Writer Your

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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

~ E. B. White

Chickens Discouraging Know Literature More Which

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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

~ E. B. White

I See Nothing Promising See Space View Wheel

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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.

~ E. B. White

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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

~ E. B. White

Acquainted Club Easier He His Loyal Man Members Other Personally Planet Than

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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

~ E. B. White

Along Friend Good Good Writer Often Someone True True Friend Who Writer

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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

~ E. B. White

Luck Men Mention Presence Self-Made Something You

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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.

~ E. B. White

Able About Age Because Been Image Lad Me Mental Mental Image Myself Never Old Old Age Problem Shed Special

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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

~ E. B. White

Enemy Most Things Time-Consuming

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E. B. White

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11 July, 1899

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01 October, 1985

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