No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
E. B. WHITEIn a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
More E. B. White Quotes
-
-
Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
E. B. WHITE -
Writing is both mask and unveiling.
E. B. WHITE -
It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
E. B. WHITE -
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
E. B. WHITE -
I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
E. B. WHITE -
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
E. B. WHITE -
Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
E. B. WHITE -
I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
E. B. WHITE -
There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
E. B. WHITE -
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
E. B. WHITE -
Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
E. B. WHITE -
If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
E. B. WHITE -
Use the smallest word that does the job.
E. B. WHITE -
Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
E. B. WHITE -
The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
E. B. WHITE