Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
E. B. WHITEOh, I never look under the hood.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Never hurry and never worry!
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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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.
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A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.
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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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