Luck is not something you can mention in the prese... -E. B. White

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

E. B. White , Writer
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E. B. White was an American writer known for his contributions to children's literature, including the classic novels "Charlotte's Web" and "Stuart Little." He was also a prolific essayist and a longtime contributor to "The New Yorker."

E. B. White Quotes to Explore

Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor....
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it....
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 tid...
Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men....
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel....
Writing is hard work and bad for the health....
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts....
Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car....
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time....
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year....

Men Quotes to Explore

Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot ...
The Beatles were from Liverpool. It's a hard town. The Stones weren't the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men....
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good....
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God ...
I've always believed that no officer's life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear... Offic...
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent....
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not ...
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men....
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so....
Women may fall when there's no strength in men....