Evan Esar Quotes
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It was despairing to find out that I am mortal.
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How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.
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An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.
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I've always had an eye for nature, but it's the sort of thing to keep quiet about, because I don't want to come across as a mad hippy. But it makes sense to appreciate those things.
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Planning is like taking on blinders. I think it is a wise thing to be open to whatever shows up on your doorstep.
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To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
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When you educate a woman, you create a nation.
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My wife she's fat. Why, if she lost a few pounds, she'd be perfectly round.
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Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.
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The bigger the darkness, the easier it is to spot your little light.
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Idleness is the enemy of the soul; and therefore the brethren ought to be employed in manual labor at certain times, at others, in devout reading.
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It doesn't matter if you take a great picture if no one knows what it's about.
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For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We make no wonder of the rising and the setting of the sun which we see every day; and yet there is nothing in the universe more beautiful, or worthy of wonder. When, however, an eclipse of the sun takes place, everyone is amazed - because it happens rarely.
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A pronoun, too, will aptly reflect the number of its antecedent: "they" does not refer to one person, no matter how many personalities she or he has, or how eager you are to skirt the gender frays.
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Without goals our efforts may be scattered and unproductive.
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Over the years, he disappeared - like a lot of our leaders disappear. [James Baldwin] was not assassinated, but somehow he went through those assassinations as if it was himself. I think that broke him as well.
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O braggart vile and damned furious wight!
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We are surrounded by braggarts whose loud mouths propel their thin talent as far as the wind carries.
