Evan Esar Quotes - Page 2

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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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• Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.

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  People, Prison, Dictatorship

  "20,000 Quips and Quotes". Book by Evan Esar, 1968.

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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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• A compromise is a settlement by which each side gets what neither side wanted.

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  Sides, Compromise, Settlement

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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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• 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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• Washington is the place where nobody believes a rumor until it has been officially denied.

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  Believe, Rumor, Denial

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

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  Apology, Promise, Excuse

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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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• 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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• [Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.

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  Science, Technology, Statistics

  Esar's Comic Dictionary

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• The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.

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  Laughter, Medicine, Needs

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• The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

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  Men, Competition, Mind

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• Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.

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  Common Sense, Imagination, Common

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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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• A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea.

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  Science, Technology, Men

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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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• A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.

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  Talking, Listening, Easy

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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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• 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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• 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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• A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Unnecessary

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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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