Evan Esar Quotes

A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience.

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• I think people appreciate honesty.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • Think
  • Honesty

• 'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Important
  • Law
  • Quality

• I was very precocious when I was young. I went to college at 16, and I graduated at 20. I wanted to be a writer, but I was more interested in experience than in applying myself intellectually.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Experience
  • College
  • Myself

• Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Strong
  • Famous
  • Healing

• We don’t forgive being as we are.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Women
  • Happy
  • Educated

• Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Men
  • Hippie
  • Cop

• Without the Christian explanation of original sin, the seemingly silly story of Adam and Eve and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, there was no explanation of conflict. At all.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Good
  • Knowledge
  • Evil

• When it became clear that in fact my father was saying, "It will be interesting to see what you want to do when you grow up," I realized that there was no pressure on that front. And I remember huge relief: Hey, I can go and do what I really know I have to do!

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Father

• I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Trying
  • Looks
  • Wanted

• Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.

  

  Plato
  • Love
  • Laws
  • Reigns

• I am fascinated by quantum physics.

  

  Vinny Guadagnino
  • Physics
  • Fascinated
  • Quantum

• In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Character
  • Long Run
  • Good Action

• One day Anton Rieder, my old crush from high school, sat down next to me. He had been fatherless since we were kids. He knew the feeling—the loss of direction, the insecurity, the premature aging. “You are still beautiful,” he said. “And you were always gallant.” “I’ve enrolled at the Consular Academy. I’m going there not because I am so eager to be a diplomat, but because they have given me a scholarship.” “But it will be wonderful for you, Anton. You will be able to travel, maybe even go to England or America.” “Come with me.” “What?” “I know you go with Pepi Rosenfeld, but believe me, he’s too smart for his own good—his brains will always get in the way of his conscience. He’s not fine enough for you. I have always been in love with you; you know that. Leave him and come with me. I have nothing. Now your father is dead, and you have nothing. We’ll be perfect together.” He reached across the library table and took my hand. He was so handsome, so earnest. For a moment, I thought: “Maybe. Why not?” And then of course all the reasons why not spilled onto the long oak table, and Anton could not fail to see them there; and like a wise young diplomat, he rose and kissed my hand and took his leave.

  

  Edith Hahn Beer
  • Kids
  • Travel
  • Direction

• I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.

  

  Billy Joel
  • People
  • Boy
  • Drinking

• If our airforces are never used, they have achieved their finest goal.

  

  Nathan Farragut Twining
  • Goal
  • Used
  • Airforces

• Bill Elliott has always been good at Pocono, and he's given me a lot of pointers. He's helping me learn how to get through the corners. He's got great insight on how to each corner is different and how I need to get through it.

  

  Kasey Kahne
  • Different
  • Helping
  • Insight

• A corporation has all the powers and privileges of an individual: all it lacks is a conscience.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Conscience
  • Powers
  • Corporation