410 Quotes by E.B. White

I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.

Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user’s dreams than to express a precise meaning.

The light strengthened, the mornings came sooner.

Why is it, do you suppose, that an Englishman is unhappy until he has explained America?

The living language is like a cowpath: it is the creation of the cows themselves, who, having created it, follow it or depart from it according to their whims or their needs. From daily use, the path undergoes change. A cow is under no obligation to stay.

A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

I would really rather feel bad in Maine than feel good anywhere else.

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