“Writing is hard work and bad for the health.”
“The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and the prognostications and the turmoil, the disagreements and the fateful decisions and agreements and the plans and the programs and the threats and the counter threats, then you close your eyes and the sea dispatches one more big roller in the unbroken line since the beginning of the world and it combs and breaks and returns foaming and saying: "So soon?" E. B. White "On A Florida Key”
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.”
E.B. White, Letters of E. B. White“Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.”
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.”
E. B. White“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.”
E. B. White“A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.”
E. B. White“Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.”
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