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 car care
Some men take good care of a car; others treat it like one of the family.
girl long care
A girl never cares who casts the first stone at her -- as long as it's a diamond
exercise car people
Some people would never get any exercise at all if they didn't have to walk to their cars.
cards credit wallets
A batch of credit cards fattens a wallet before it thins it.
pants cards credit
Nowadays it's not who wears the pants in the family, but who carries the credit cards.
church care lightning
The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.
zoos carpe-diem study
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
car jam traffic
The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams
nuts car together
It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.
credit cards trouble
A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change.
sight car age
Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.
inspirational home doe
Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
character personality lost-everything
Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
vacation like-love nostalgia
A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.