I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White Quotations
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Somehow not only for ChristmasBut all the long year through,The joy that you give to othersIs the joy that comes back to you.
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
Weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society -- things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
Loneliness is a strange gift.
It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.