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
laughter laughing world
Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry -- and the world laughs harder.
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.
credit cowardice conscience
Conscience gets a lot of credit that really belongs to cowardice.
two vegas income
Las Vegas is a resort whose two chief sources of income are seven and eleven.
talking listening easy
A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.
church care lightning
The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.
needs loan lending
You can always make a loan at a bank if you can show sufficient evidence that you don't need it.
laziness world trouble
The trouble with the world is that laziness is seldom curable and never fatal.
laziness tongue
When laziness attacks a woman, it always avoids her tongue.
vacation like-love nostalgia
A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.
ego growing egotism
Ego: The only thing that can keep growing without nourishment.
disappointment today tomorrow
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
differences people looks
The difference between us and other people is that their money looks bigger and their troubles smaller.