E. B. White on food

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without annoying delays: don’t write about Man, write about ‘a’ man.

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

Mark Twain1835–1910

You can tell a lot about a fellow’s character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Ronald Reagan1911–2004

I’m at an age where I think more about food than sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.

Rodney Dangerfield1921–2004

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