Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E. B. 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.
E. B. White

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.
E. B. 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.
E. B. White

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
E. B. White

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
E. B. White

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
E. B. White

The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
E. B. White

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

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
E. B. White

To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
E. B. White

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. White

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.
E. B. 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.
E. B. White

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
E. B. White

Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
E. B. White