410 Quotes by E.B. White

They just keep trotting back and forth across the bridge thinking there is something better on the other side. If they’d hang head-down at the top of the thing and wait quietly, maybe something good would come along.

We stand or fall by television.

Half a man’s life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.

Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.

Any husband who loses interest in the drama of family life, as it unfolds, isn’t worth his salt.

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.

When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.