The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. Elwyn Brooks White Avoid • Change • Common • Instinctively • Long • Long Run • Only • Run • Sense
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. Elwyn Brooks White Democracy • Half • People • Politics • Recurrent • Right • Suspicion • Time
Writing is hard work and bad for the health. Elwyn Brooks White Bad • Hard Work • Health • Work • Writing
A writer is like a bean plant – he has his little day, and then gets stringy. Elwyn Brooks White Bean • Day • He • Like • Little • Little Day • Plant • Stringy • Writer
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 Days • Ill • Knowingly • Meteorologist • Need • Once • One • Over • Skin • Walks Bent • Weather • Wet Days • Without
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. Elwyn Brooks White Day • Desire • Enjoy • Hard • Life • Morning • Morning Torn • Plan • World
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 Able • Age • Image • Me • Mental • Myself • Never • Old • Old Age • Problem • Special Problem
The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it. Elwyn Brooks White Critic • Curtain • Fall • Find • He • Leaves • Play • Review • Starting
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 Acceptance • Age • Atom • Man • New • Power • Speed • Terror • Violence
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. Elwyn Brooks White Amendment • Cat • Editorial • First • First Amendment • I Can • Office • Thought • Writer
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor. Elwyn Brooks White Absolutely Sure • American • American Believes • Himself • Humor • Sense • Sense Of Humor
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. Elwyn Brooks White Act • Circus • Fall • Knives • New • Precision • Victim • Yorker
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. Elwyn Brooks White Christmas • Difficult • Every Year • Through • Wrappings • Year
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. Elwyn Brooks White Enemy • Most • Things • Time-Consuming • Timeconsuming Things
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. Elwyn Brooks White Become • Before • Eighteen • Father • Time • War • Years
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. Elwyn Brooks White Across • Education • English • Judgment • Luck • Mere • More • Sheer • Sometimes • Street • Taste • Usage
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. Elwyn Brooks White Bylaws • Club • Easier • He • Loyal • Man • Personally • Planet • Shorter
The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative. Elwyn Brooks White Debates • Disarmament • Knights • Make • Next • One • Organization • Room • World
I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright. Elwyn Brooks White Born • Man • Many • Men • Nonpolitical • Perpendicular • Piece • Political • Slant • Upright • Way • Writing
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. Elwyn Brooks White Cracked Pot • Found • Genius • Intelligence • More • Often • One • Pot • Whole
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. Elwyn Brooks White Farmer • Good • Good Farmer • Handy • Humus • Less • Man • More • Nothing • Sense
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Elwyn Brooks White Comes • Friend • Good • Often • Someone • True • True Friend
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. Elwyn Brooks White Childhood • Doorway • Full • Mind • Never • Open • People • World
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. Elwyn Brooks White Car • Everything • Life • Somewhere • You
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. Elwyn Brooks White Luck • Men • Mention • Presence • Selfmade Men • Something • You
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 Grapes • Joy • Laundry • Long • Only • Run • Run Gives Us
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. Elwyn Brooks White Bright • Feel • Future • Her • Less Time • Man • Nature • Optimistic • Time
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. Elwyn Brooks White Dies • Few • Frog • Humor • Like • People
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Elwyn Brooks White Facts • Form Opinions • Funny • Great • Opinions • Time • You
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. Elwyn Brooks White Agreement • Countries • Disagreement • Likely • Nothing • People • Start
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. Elwyn Brooks White Act • Faith • Grammar • Trick • Writing
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. Elwyn Brooks White Chickens • Discouraging Literature • Know • Literature • More • Which
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. Elwyn Brooks White Beyond • Child • Child People Simply • Deep • Happy • Moderately Happy Today • People • Sad • Today
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another. Elwyn Brooks White Account • Always • Complicated • Complicated Things • Get • Limit • One • Thing • Things
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. Elwyn Brooks White Ferris Wheel • I See • Nothing • See • Space • View • Wheel
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people. Elwyn Brooks White Always • Highly Unprofitable • Most • People • Profit • Profit System • Trouble
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