E B White Famous Quotes
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
"You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that."
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
"Somehow not only for ChristmasBut all the long year through,The joy that you give to othersIs the joy that comes back to you."
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
"Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma."
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.
"I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they happen to strike me."
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
"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."
E B White Quotations
"If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."
Bruce Barton
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.
Tommy Smothers
"Tony Montana In this country, you gotta make the money first. Then when you get the money, you get the power. Then when you get the power, then you get the women."
Scarface
The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom.
Henry Ward Beecher
Do not seek evil gains evil gains are the equivalent of disaster.
Hesiod
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Albert Guerard
Common sense is that layer of prejudices which we acquire before we are sixteen.
Albert Einstein
"Stacy Happy anniversary, Wayne. Wayne Stacy, we broke up two months ago. Stacy Well, that doesn't mean we can't still go out, does it Wayne Well, it does actually, that's what breaking up is."
Wayne s World
Rumack Yes I am serious... and don't call me Shirley.
Airplane
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.
Robert Bloch