Creative Quotations from E. B. White (1899-1985)

Creative Quotations from . . .

E. B. White
(1899-1985) born on Jul 11

US "humorist, essayist, novelist". "His children's books have become classics, e.g., "Charlotte's Web," 1952 and "Stuart Little," 1945."

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

DEMOCRACY: n: The recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

"She would write 8 or 10 words, then draw her gun and shoot them down."

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	"In "The Speaker's Electronic Reference Collection," AApex Software, 1994."
R:	New Yorker (3 Jul 1944).
A:	"``Control,'' in 'One Man's Meat'"
N:	"On his wife Katharine S White, "Onward and Upward in the Garden," Farrar, Straus & Giroux 79"
K:	"Essays of E. B. White, "A Report in January" (1977; first published 1958)."