E.B. White

• Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
• Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
• I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
• Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
• Be obscure clearly.
• Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
• Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
• I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving he can outwit nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
• It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.
• 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.

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De die in diem - From day to day

Da mihi sis cerevisiam dilutam - I'll have a light beer
Da mihi sis crustum Etruscum cum omnibus in eo - I'll have a pizza with everything on it.
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Bis vivit qui bene vivit - He lives twice who lives well
Dum spiro, spero - While I breathe, I hope. (Cicero)
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Bis vincit qui se vincit in victoria - He conquers twice who in the hour of conquest conquers himself. (Syrus)
Bis interimitur qui suis armis perit - He is doubly destroyed who perishes by his own arms. (Syrus)