Evan Esar Quotes

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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.

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  Education, Money, Believe

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• Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  Evan Esar (1961). “Humorous English: a guide to comic usage, jocular speech and writing, and witty grammar”

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• There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.

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  Leadership, Two, Kind

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• Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

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  Anger, Feelings, Mind

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• You are not fully dressed until you wear a smile.

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  Your Smile, Beautiful Smile, I Smile

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• In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.

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  Believe, Democracy, Dictatorship

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• Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience.

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  Education, Teacher, Teaching

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• Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.

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  Family, Mother, Children

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• Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.

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  Sight, Car, Age

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• Many a man works himself to death by burying himself in his work.

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  Work, Men, Burying

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• The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.

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  Stories, Way, Facts

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• Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.

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  Art, Communication, Vocabulary

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• The cat: an animal that's so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time.

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  Cat, Animal, Next

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• Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

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  Character, Personality, Lost Everything

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• Some women get divorces on the grounds of incompatibility; others, on just the first two syllables.

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  Divorce, Two, Firsts

  Evan Esar (1961). “Humorous English: a guide to comic usage, jocular speech and writing, and witty grammar”

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• The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about.

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  Funny, Hilarious, Children

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• Egocentricity: The vanity that makes you wonder what people are thinking about you when they are really wondering what you are thinking about them.

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  Thinking About You, Vanity, People

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• Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

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  Mother, Boys, Guilt

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• An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

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  Confusing, Sound, Experts

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• Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.

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  Business, Definitions, Statistics

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• The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams

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  Car, Jam, Traffic

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• Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.

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  Art, Mean, Lost

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• All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.

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  Equality, Men, Creator

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• The difference between us and other people is that their money looks bigger and their troubles smaller.

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  Differences, People, Looks

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• Times change: it was once the custom to take a bath weekly and religion daily.

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  Baths, Customs

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