Quotes by E. B. White

“Summertime oh summertime pattern of life indelible the fade-proof lake the woods unshatterable the pasture with the sweetfern and the juniper forever and ever . . . the cottages with their in...”

“I liked to sail alone. The sea was the same as a girl to me - I did not want anyone else along.”

“The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahe...”

“There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.”

“I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart 'til it stops beating."”

“Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man write about a man.”

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

“The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.”

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

“Reading is the work of the alert mind is demanding and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other ...”

“His words leap across rivers and mountains but his thoughts are still only six inches long.”

“Humour plays close to the big hot fire which is the truth and the reader feels the heat.”

“Humour can be dissected as a frog can but the thing dies in the process.”

“Commuter - One who spends his life in riding to and from his wife a man who shaves and takes a train and then rides back to shave again.”

“A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer he approaches lucid ground warily like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a lit...”

“If the world were merely seductive that would be easy. If it were merely challenging that would be no problem. But I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a d...”

“Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness natives give it solidity and continuity but the settlers give it passion.”

“Summertime oh summertime pattern of life indelible the fade-proof lake the woods unshatterable the pasture with the sweetfern and the juniper forever and ever . . . the cottages with their innocent...”

“It's broccoli, dear. I say it's spinach, and I say the hell with it.”

“Commuter — one who spends his lifeIn riding to and from his wife;A man who shaves and takes a trainAnd then rides back to shave again.”