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
work boys play
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.
zoos carpe-diem study
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
baths customs
Times change: it was once the custom to take a bath weekly and religion daily.
art ideas two
Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
girl men sailor
The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.
fun losing loser
A good loser is all right, but it isn't so much fun to beat him.
girl men past
The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
husband fire funny-wedding-toast
A husband is like a fire. He goes out when unattended.
car jam traffic
The car was invented as a convenient place to sit out traffic jams
math simple circles
[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.
children growing-up latin
Etymology: from Latin ad-, "to" + visum, past participle of videre, "to see". Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.
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.
book years forgotten
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
perspective unhappy want
Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you deserve with what you have, and you'll be happy.