We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. – E. B. White
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it. – 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
I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. – E. B. White
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement. – E. B. White
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. – E. B. White
The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it. – E. B. White
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. – E. B. White
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim. – E. B. White
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. – E. B. 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. – E. B. White
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. – E. B. White
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. – E. B. White
