Elwyn Brooks White Quotes 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. Days Ill Knowingly Meteorologist Need Once One Over Skin Walks Bent Weather Wet Days Without
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
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
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
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
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street. Elwyn Brooks White
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. Elwyn Brooks White
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people. Elwyn Brooks White
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. Elwyn Brooks White
So is Easter the festival of eggs or of bunnies bro? I still can’t understand how the eggs and the bunnies are related! Tewin Sham
As a successful romantic novelist – one of my publishers is Mills & Boon – I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate. Phyllis Christine Cast
The problem is that a lot of the blues stations are late on Saturday night, and like a lot of people, I ain't no vampire! B. B King
Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway. B. B King