E. B. White

How many legs does a dog have, if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

Are you doing what you’re doing today because you want to do it or because it’s what you were doing yesterday?

When the mind is perfectly clear, what is is what we want.

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before–more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

Improvements have been coming so quickly that the past is being lost to the rising generation, and it can be preserved only by putting it in a form where it may be seen and felt. That is the reason behind this collection.

I’m the one that has to die when it’s time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist.

There can be no lasting peace where hatred exists. Hatreds will continue to arise as long as the causes of war are not rooted out and exposed.