34 Quotations by Elwyn Brooks White
- 1. A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thoug ...

- 2. A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

- 3. A man is not expected to love his country, lest he make an ass of himself. Yet our country, seen thr ...

- 4. A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist -- nothing shields him from the world's gaze except ...

- 5. A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the ...

- 6. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips t ...

- 7. Advertisers are the interpreters of our dreams -- Joseph interpreting for Pharaoh. Like the movies, ...

- 8. All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can w ...

- 9. Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, ve ...

- 10. Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

- 11. Commuter - one who spends his life in riding to and from his wife; and man who shaves and takes a tr ...

- 12. Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness; natives give it solidity and continuity; but the set ...

- 13. Deathlessness should be arrived at in a... haphazard fashion. Loving fame as much as any man, we sha ...

- 14. Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of t ...

- 15. Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

- 16. Heredity is a strong factor, even in architecture. Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention ...

- 17. I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I ...

- 18. In a sense the world dies every time a writer dies, because, if he is any good, he has been a wet nu ...

- 19. In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excus ...

- 20. It is at a fair that man can be drunk forever on liquor, love, or fights; at a fair that your front ...

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