Evan Esar Quotes

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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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• 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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• We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.

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  Volunteer, Depth, Length

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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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• 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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• 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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• Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you deserve with what you have, and you'll be happy.

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  Perspective, Unhappy, Want

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• All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait.

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  Waiting, Leftovers, All Things

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• If you want to be different nowadays, just act normal.

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  Differences, Normal, Different

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• Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.

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  Credit, Cowardice, Conscience

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

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  Equality, Cemetery

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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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• About the only time Congress conforms to the will of the people is when it decides to adjourn.

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  People, Congress, Conform

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

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  Men, Doe, Bikinis

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

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  Car, Jam, Traffic

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• Some couples divorce because of a misunderstandin g; others, because they understand each other too well.

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  Couple, Divorce, Wells

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