Quotes - Mayra (m_maya) (Niles, MI) Showing 1-30 of 56

#1

“I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart till it stops beating. ”
― E.B. White

tags: heart, worry

#2

“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.”
― E.B. White

234 likes

#3

“One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.”
― E.B. White, Essays of E.B. White

180 likes

#4

“Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.”
― E.B. White

237 likes

#5

“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, Letters of E. B. White

tags: nature

579 likes

#6

“Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.”
― E.B. White

838 likes

#7

“After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: birth, death, life

726 likes

#8

“It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friend, friendship, writers

1348 likes

#9

“Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. 'I don't deserve it. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: friendship

7669 likes

#10

“I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.”
― E.B. White

126 likes

#11

“You're terrific as far as I am concerned.”
― E.B. White

53 likes

#12

“In every queen there's a touch of floozy.”
― E.B. White

48 likes

#13

“Never hurry and never worry!”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

199 likes

#14

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

tags: open-doorway, open-mind

154 likes

#15

“Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: blind-faith, gullibility, humor, insidious, mass-media, media, media-distortion

263 likes

#16

“Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.”
― E.B. White

66 likes

#17

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

tags: complicated

77 likes

#18

“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.”
― E. B. White

37 likes

#19

“Too many things on my mind, said Wilbur.
Well, said the goose, that's not my trouble. I have nothing at all on my mind, but I've too many things under my behind.”
― E. B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: charlotte-s, web

46 likes

#20

“I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.”
― E.B. White

tags: humor

29 likes

#21

“Don't write about Man; write about a man.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: character, the-writing-process

98 likes

#22

“To achieve style, begin by affecting none.”
― E.B. White, The Elements of Style

tags: style

65 likes

#23

“Have you ever found anything that gives you relief?"... "Yes. A drink”
― E.B. White, The Second Tree from the Corner

20 likes

#24

“Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it.”
― E.B. White

tags: books

59 likes

#25

“A mistake is simply another way of doing things.”
― E.B. White

51 likes

#26

“Everything in life is somewhere else and you get there in a car.”
― E.B. White

20 likes

#27

“Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.”
― E. B. White, Charlotte's Web

100 likes

#28

“It is deeply satisfying to win a prize in front of a lot of people.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

tags: inspirational, prize, win, winner, winning

41 likes

#29

“Wilbur didn't want food, he wanted love.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

93 likes

#30

“Meetings bore me.”
― E.B. White, Charlotte’s Web

30 likes

Mayra > Mayra's Quotes

Tags From Mayra’s Quotes