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
sight planning hindsight
Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.
fit bureaucracy officials
A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.
work boys play
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy - and Jill a wealthy widow.
together egotism egocentric
Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.
thinking-about-you vanity people
Egocentricity: The vanity that makes you wonder what people are thinking about you when they are really wondering what you are thinking about them.
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.
loneliness men survival
The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.
listening sides argument
The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.
work one-thing
There's only one thing worse than to live without working, and that is to work without living.
community helping hog
Don't be a hog: the only time a hog helps the community is when he dies.
government voting citizens
Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.
imagination common-sense common
Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.
common-sense stupidity kind
There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.
common-sense common form
The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.