Evan Esar quotes

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment. (Evan Esar)
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose. View quote
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Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. View quote
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The girl with a future avoids a man with a past. View quote
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Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings. View quote
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Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either. View quote
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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. View quote
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Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once. View quote
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A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name. View quote
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Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing. View quote
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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them. (Evan Esar)
Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures. View quote
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Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it. View quote
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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last. View quote
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Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl. View quote
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An epigram is the marriage of wit, and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce. View quote
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A husband is like a fire - he goes out when unattended. View quote
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow. View quote
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It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway. View quote
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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary. View quote
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Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage. (Evan Esar)
Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does. View quote
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Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. View quote
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A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much. View quote
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You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. View quote
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Evan Esar

Occupation: American Writer
Born: 1899
Died: 1995
Quotes count: 31
Wikipedia: Evan Esar

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