Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

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.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

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

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

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

The worst crime is faking it.

I know that might sound silly coming from someone my age, but I remember on my 14th birthday having a crisis like my mom should be having. I kept thinking that I was getting older, and I haven't really accomplished anything. I remember thinking that I better accomplish something real soon.

Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.

Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.

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