“The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.” Elwyn Brooks White
“The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.” Elwyn Brooks White ChangeWiseFunSenseRunAvoidCommonInstinctively
“All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.” Elwyn Brooks White
“I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.” Elwyn Brooks White
“When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.” Elwyn Brooks White
