E. B. White

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

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.

Be obscure clearly.

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

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.

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.

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.