Elwyn Brooks White Quotes Elwyn Brooks White Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. Democracy Half People Politics Recurrent Right Suspicion Time
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people. Elwyn Brooks White
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. Elwyn Brooks White
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Elwyn Brooks White
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. Elwyn Brooks White
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. Elwyn Brooks 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. Elwyn Brooks White
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor. Elwyn Brooks White
When you don't have much money, you worry that they'll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won't know where you are. B. B King
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first. Alan Alexander Milne
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. Elwyn Brooks White
I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. B. B King
I'm pretty sure my mom is the only person on the planet who thinks that she got cancer so that I could find my calling in life, but as I started to build this company, all my years of useless education, random jobs, and weird interests merged into this serendipitous moment. Yael Cohen