E B White quotes

" Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. " # Perseverance # Humor # Death and Dying

" The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. " # War # Fathers # Age and Aging

" If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. " # Planning

" Somehow not only for ChristmasBut all the long year through,The joy that you give to othersIs the joy that comes back to you. " # Joy

" It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. " # Friends and Friendship

" Writing is hard work and bad for the health. " # Writers and Writing # Work # Health

" 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. " # Ancestry # Architecture # Necessity

" 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. " # Men and Women # Love # Time and Time Management

" 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. " # Writers and Writing # Love # Friends and Friendship

" 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. " # Editing and Editors # Humor # Science and Scientists