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
stones diamond hardest
The diamond is the hardest stone -- to get.
believe rumor denial
Washington is the place where nobody believes a rumor until it has been officially denied.
debt term short-term
There's nothing as short as short-term debt.
doctors office dresses
More diets start in dress shops than in doctors' offices.
husband boyish figures
Women diet to retain their girlish figures or their boyish husbands.
weight pounds dieting
The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight.
yesterday people effort
If it required some effort to go from today to tomorrow, some people would always remain in yesterday.
men trying heredity
Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.
envy hatred enemy
The only thing more certain than the hatred of enemies is the envy of friends.
equality men born
All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.
equality cemetery
The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.
dignity corpses
There is nothing more dignified than a corpse.
expectations unexpected sometimes
Sometimes the unexpected happens when you don't expect a person to come up to expectations.
want littles dignity
If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.