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

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  Your Smile, Beautiful Smile, I Smile

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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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• The computer saves man a lot of guesswork, but so does the bikini.

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  Men, Doe, Bikinis

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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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• The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.

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  Equality, Cemetery

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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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• 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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• There's only one thing worse than to live without working, and that is to work without living.

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  Work, One Thing

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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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• 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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• If it required some effort to go from today to tomorrow, some people would always remain in yesterday.

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  Yesterday, People, Effort

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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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• 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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• It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.

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  Nuts, Car, Together

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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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• The word impossible is peculiar because if you examine it closely, you'll find that most of it is possible.

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  Peculiar, Impossible, Ifs

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• The most popular form of altruism is giving to others the advice you cannot use yourself.

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  Giving, Advice, Use

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• All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.

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  Funny, Work, Sarcasm

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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.

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  Thinking, Insulting, May

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• You can't judge the ability of a doctor by the amount of praise the undertakers give him.

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  Doctors, Giving, Judging

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• The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal.

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  World, Laziness, Trouble

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• The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight.

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  Pounds, Dieting, Weight

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