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E. B. White [1899-1985] American

Rank: 101
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Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White was an American writer. He was a contributor to The New Yorker magazine and a co-author of the English language style guide The Elements of Style, which is commonly known as "Strunk & White".

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Quote	Tags	Rank
Be obscure clearly.	Funny	101
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.	Space	102
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.	Funny, Great, Time	103
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.	Car	104
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.	Life, Morning	105
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.		106
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.	Men	107
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.	Future, Nature, Time	108
I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.		109
The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.		110
The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.	Change	111
A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.		112
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.	Politics	113
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.	Intelligence	114
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.		115
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.		116
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.	Dad, War	117
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.		118
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.	Christmas	119
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.	Health	120
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.	Faith	121
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.		122
The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.		123
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.		124
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.	Humor	125
I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.		126
A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.		201
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.		202
It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.		203
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.	Sad	204
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.		205
Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.	Humor	206
English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.		207
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.		208
All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.		209
Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.		210
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.		211

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