E B White Quotes - Page 2

This is what youth must figure out:Girls, love, and living.The having, the not having,The spending and giving,And the meloncholy time of not knowing.This is what age must learn about:The ABC of dying.The going, yet not going,The loving and leaving,And the unbearable knowing and knowing

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

I'm really too young to go out into the world alone," he thought as he lay down.

It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.

By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience- if they did they would live elsewhere.

I liked to sail alone. The sea was the same as a girl to me - I did not want anyone else along.

The world is full of talkers, but it is rare to find anyone who listens. And I assure you that you can pick up more information when you are listening than when you are talking.

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a

His words leap across rivers and mountains but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.

The best writing is rewriting.

At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as any dream.

I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?

To confront death, in any guise, is to identify with the victim and face what is unsettling and sobering

New York is the concentrate of art and commerce and sport and religion and entertainment and finance, bringing to a single compact arena the gladiator, the evangelist, the promoter, the actor, the trader and the merchant. No one should come to New York to live unless he is willing to be lucky.

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

New York is to the nation what the white church spire is to the village - the visible symbol of aspiration and faith, the white plume saying the way is up

As everyone knows, there is often a rather fine line between laughing and crying

Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.