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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

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.

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When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.

Just like anyone else, I want privacy at times, but I understand that I am a celebrity.

If God, as some now say, is dead, He no doubt died of trying to find an equitable solution to the Arab-Jewish problem.

I believe that the presidential term should be limited.

I'm so happy because today I found my friends – they're in my head.

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