Quotes

“Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.” Elwyn Brooks White

“One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.” Elwyn Brooks White

“The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.” Elwyn Brooks White

“I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.” Elwyn Brooks White

“I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.” Elwyn Brooks White

“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.” Elwyn Brooks White

“There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.” Elwyn Brooks White

“Writing is hard work and bad for the health.” Elwyn Brooks White

“It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.” Elwyn Brooks White

“Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.” Elwyn Brooks White

“The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.” Elwyn Brooks White

“The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.” Elwyn Brooks White

“English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.” Elwyn Brooks White

“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

“The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.” Elwyn Brooks White

“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

“A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.” 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

“I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.” Ron White

“The next time you have a thought... let it go.” Ron White

“I had the right to remain silent... but I didn't have the ability.” Ron White

“I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.” Ron White

“People are saying that I'm an alcoholic, and that's not true, because I only drink when I work, and I'm a workaholic.” Ron White

“Other states are trying to abolish the death penalty... mine's putting in an express lane.” Ron White

“You wanna get the truth out of me, get me hammered.” Ron White

“Diamonds - that'll shut her up... for a minute!” Ron White

“I believe that a bad Super Bowl halftime show is still better than a soccer game.” Ron White

“You can't fix stupid.” Ron White