A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea

A man must have something to cling to. Without that he is as a pea vine sprawling in search of a trellis…. I was all asprawl, clinging to Beauty, which is a very restless trellis. – E.B. White (1899–1985)

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Wise Words
category

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood. – William James

Category:
Wise Words

Do not sacrifice a large good for a little evil. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Category:
Wise Words

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up. – Albert Schweitzer

Category:
Wise Words

In the end the reason for anything is inseparable from the reason for everything. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Wise Words

Random Quotes

Men dont care whats on TV. They only care what else is on TV. – Jerry Seinfeld

Category:
funny

The equality among all members of the League, which is provided in the statutes giving each state only one vote, cannot of course abolish the actual material inequality of the powers concerned. – Hjalmar Branting

Category:
Equality

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him. – Brendan Francis

Category:
Love

What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part? – Shimon Peres

Category:
Future