Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man. E. B. White More Quotes by E. B. White More Quotes From E. B. White I can still see my first dog. For six years he met me at the same place after school and convoyed me home - a service he thought up himself. A boy doesn't forget that sort of association. E. B. White dog home friendship In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally in speech-that is, where the speaker would pause for emphasis, or take a breath. The best test for locating an attributive is to speak the sentence aloud. E. B. White tests speech writing Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process. E. B. White quality half men The total collapse of the public opinion polls shows that this country is in good health. A country that developed an airtight system of finding out in advance what was in people's minds would be uninhabitable. E. B. White Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. E. B. White I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult. E. B. White Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. E. B. White 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. E. B. White 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. E. B. White 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. E. B. White Somehow not only for ChristmasBut all the long year through,The joy that you give to othersIs the joy that comes back to you. E. B. White You have been my friends, replied Charlotte, that in itself is a tremendous thing... E. B. White
