Quotes of Evan Esar - somelinesforyou

“ Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them. ”

- Evan Esar

“ It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does. ”

- Evan Esar

“ America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage. ”

- Evan Esar

“ The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration. ”

- Evan Esar

“ You are not fully dressed until you wear a smile. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Anger is a feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Anger is a feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space. ”

- Evan Esar

“ A vacation is like love — anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Tolerance is the ability to smile when someone else's child behaves as badly as your own. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Talent is often mistaken for genius, especially by the man who has it. ”

- Evan Esar

“ America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. ”

- Evan Esar

“ The chief ability of an executive should be his ability to recognize ability. ”

- Evan Esar

“ The drawback in voting for the man of your choice is that he is seldom a candidate. ”

- Evan Esar

“ What this country needs is a Congress capable of voting more intelligently than the voters who elect it. ”

- Evan Esar

“ The state of the Union largely depends on the state of the unions. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Many a man could easily support a wife if he didn't also have to feed her vanity. ”

- Evan Esar

“ The only use some people make of their will power is to support their won't power. ”

- Evan Esar

“ It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses — if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others. ”

- Evan Esar

“ The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last. ”

- Evan Esar

“ The only vice some men have is their claim to being virtuous. ”

- Evan Esar

“ Every bride and groom would do well to remember that in wedding, the we comes before the I. ”

- Evan Esar

“ After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride. ”

- Evan Esar
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