Evan Esar Quotes

An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.

Evan Esar

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• Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Believe
  • Always
  • Marriage

• I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.

  

  Nas
  • Think
  • Beautiful
  • Marriage

• American couples have gone to such lengths to avoid the interference of in-laws that they have to pay marriage counselors to interfere between them.

  

  Florence King
  • American
  • Marriage
  • Pay

• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Wisdom
  • Habit
  • Necessity

• To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Power
  • Wisdom
  • Existence

• If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Done
  • Want
  • Wisdom

• I firmly believe that every six years, a person goes through a serious change. Think about it: At 6, you start school. At about 12, you start hitting puberty. And then it goes on. You start hitting these different mental levels, and people change. I think that's part of the reason the divorce rate is so high.

  

  Randy Houser
  • People
  • Believe
  • Different

• Even after marriage, our home is important for us.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Important
  • Home
  • Marriage

• Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• Of course I love being in love - but it is marriage that really fulfills me. But not in every case.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Marriage
  • Being
  • Course

• Raising children was not designed for single parents. (Which is why divorce was such a taboo prior to birth control.)

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Children
  • Why
  • Parents

• Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

  

  Anne Bradstreet
  • Wisdom

• Age, with his eyes in the back of his head, thinks it wisdom to see the bogs through which he has floundered.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Age
  • Eyes
  • Wisdom

• The sophist is concerned with wisdom, not for its own sake, not because he hates the lie in the soul more than anything else, but for the sake of the honor or the prestige that attends wisdom.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Soul
  • Wisdom
  • Honor

• To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

  

  Lawrence Block
  • Marriage

• Let me be clear. I support the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

  

  Ben Nelson
  • Support
  • Marriage

• The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.

  

  Akiva ben Joseph
  • Law
  • Wisdom
  • Silence

• Divorce is not easy, but if you genuinely put your kids first, that dictates the civility you should show each other. What example are you otherwise?

  

  Dawn French
  • Kids
  • Divorce

• I do think there is much truth in the Young German idea that marriage is a shockingly immoral institution, as well as what we have long known it for - an extremely disagreeable one.

  

  Jane Welsh Carlyle
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Marriage

• I got the chess bug when I was finishing high school, we were doing chess tournaments at my house. I never got to a very high level.

  

  Paul Banks Interpol
  • School
  • House
  • Chess

• Ninety-nine percent of the time, when it comes down to it, if I have the choice between a great role and seeing a new guy, I would probably go for the great role because I figure if the guy's really that great that he'll be around once I'm done with the movie.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Time
  • Great
  • Done

• There as here, passions are the motive of all action, but they are livelier, more ardent, or merely simpler and purer, thereby assuming a totally different character. All the first movements of nature are good and right.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Good
  • Different
  • Character

• The great thing about Showtime is that they really give us leeway and the range to explore the real dark side of stuff.

  

  Dash Mihok
  • Great
  • Real
  • Dark

• An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Wisdom
  • Marriage
  • Divorce