E. B. White

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. ↗

— E. B. White

#gives #grapes #joy #laundry #long

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

— E. B. White

#circus #commas #fall #knives #new

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. ↗

— E. B. White

#democracy #half #more #people #recurrent

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. ↗

— E. B. White

#luck #mention #presence #self-made #something

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19. ↗

— E. B. White

#about #age #because #been #i

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat. ↗

— E. B. White

#assume #cat #editorial #first #first amendment

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. ↗

— E. B. White

#most #things #time-consuming

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it. ↗

— E. B. White

#curtain #fall #find #leaves #play

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. ↗

— E. B. White

#adjustment #age #atom #his #man

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people. ↗

— E. B. White

#been #highly #most #people #profit