1,140 Quotes by E. B. White

Dentistry is more impressive in town-what the rural man calls cleaning the teeth is called "prophylaxis" in New York.

We can't wait to have him back. We're so used to having him. Ahmad is a super athlete.

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

As long as this economic environment stays intact, the market can grind its way North. You pay a lot of attention to valuation and you have to keep your eye on the long term. If you have funds that you need in the short term, I think you probably need to take some money off the table.

Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his life, and this one is mine. It is not the best book I ever encountered, perhaps, but it is for me the handiest, and I keep it about me in much the same way one carries a handkerchief - for relief in moments of defluxion or despair.

I thought defensively we really did a good job.

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know; in a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.