Evan Esar
Evan Esar
Evan Esarwas an American humorist who wrote "Esar's Comic Dictionary" in 1943, "Humorous English" in 1961, and "20,000 Quips and Quotes" in 1968. He is known for quotes like "Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions." He also wrote The Legend of Joe Miller, which was privately printed for members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco by the Grabhorn Press in 1957...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
men waiting company
A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman is known by the company she keeps waiting.
waiting leftovers all-things
All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait.
men vacation wife
A man doesn't have vacation problems: his boss tells him when to take them, and his wife tells him where.
hurt work hard-work
Hard work never hurt anyone who hired someone else to do it.
work one-thing
There's only one thing worse than to live without working, and that is to work without living.
work men slavery
Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery; nowadays it is called moonlighting.
exercise car people
Some people would never get any exercise at all if they didn't have to walk to their cars.
peculiar impossible ifs
The word impossible is peculiar because if you examine it closely, you'll find that most of it is possible.
done said
Somebody is always doing something that somebody else said couldn't be done.
way want reactionaries
Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.
pay housewife
All work and no pay makes a housewife.
art littles sound
Eloquence is the art of saying as little as possible but making it sound as much as possible.
mouths speech members
Some members of Congress ought to have their mouths taped instead of their speeches.
trying faces bears
If you can't bear to have your face stepped on, don't try to climb the ladder of success.