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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success.

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  Trying, Ladders, Faces

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• Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management.

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  Unions, Firsts, Management

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• Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.

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  Expectations, Unexpected, Sometimes

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• If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises.

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  Apology, Promise, Excuse

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

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  Mother, Boys, Guilt

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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 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 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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• This may be the age of automation, but love is still being made by hand.

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  Love Is, Hands, Age

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