1,140 Quotes by E. B. White

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

Surgery is still the most common treatment in the U.S. because patients aren't aware that they have choices.

There are also a couple others that are still hanging out there, where decisions haven't been weighed on,

What's sad about it is that, considering the destruction in the country, with looting and so on, we needed every dollar for reconstruction.

We are continuing to work with the airport, and our hope is they will come into full compliance with our regulations.

There was a small boy at the airport, maybe two years old, who came over to me and stood in front of me. I gave him a record that you can only get from me. He laughed and stared. For a second I wished I was no one else but myself. I'll never see him again but he was the most beautiful thing I've seen in a while.

I believe television is going to be the test of the modern world, and that in this new opportunity to see beyond the range of our vision, we shall discover a new and unbearable disturbance of the modern peace, or a saving radiance in the sky. We shall stand or fall by television - of that I am quite sure.

Too many things on my mind, said Wilbur. Well, said the goose, that's not my trouble. I have nothing at all on my mind, but I've too many things under my behind.

When you get low on supplies, how do you extend it? Add ethanol,