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
believe democracy dictatorship
In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.
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Washington is the place where nobody believes a rumor until it has been officially denied.
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Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
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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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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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Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
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Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
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A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.
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Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
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Ego: The only thing that can keep growing without nourishment.
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When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.
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The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal.
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You can always make a loan at a bank if you can show sufficient evidence that you don't need it.
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A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.