Evan Esar Quotes

Some taxpayers close their eyes, some stop their ears, some shut their mouths, but all pay through the nose.

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• That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • You
  • Humor
  • Grace

• I like going to Japan where they treat it like a real sport. I like doing the entertainment stuff with the WWE. I really like doing the small venue stuff, like Ring of Honor, because everything is so intimate. There's different feelings and different experiences, and you have to be good at different things to do all of that.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
  • Different
  • Real

• A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Important
  • Poetry
  • Modern

• My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Father
  • Sometimes
  • Jobs

• I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.

  

  Natalie Martinez
  • Change
  • Car
  • Oil

• I think as a filmmaker one should make all kinds of films. It is not that one should make only one kind of film. I love to see romantic films; I loved watching 'Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge,' 'Kuch Kuch Hota Hai.' If I make such films, I will make it with my yardstick, according to my parameters.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Think
  • Film
  • See

• The injunction that we should love our neighbors as ourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselves as we love our neighbors.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Neighbors
  • Equally
  • Injunction

• I love palm strikes because you have a longer reach. Normally, when you give a left hook and then a right straight, you are too close for the right straight. Why? Because the hook is shorter.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Love
  • Why
  • You

• You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Energy
  • Yourself

• Feminism justified female 'victim power' by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Power
  • Lived

• It is a well-known fact that bringing in technologies in retail sector is good for consumers.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Good
  • Consumers
  • Retail

• I've always felt that technology companies have disrespected the content creation process, and the content creation people disrespect technology.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • People
  • Technology
  • Process

• I have been very pleased at the response we have got for 'SVSC.'

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Response
  • Been
  • Got

• One of the reasons we don't have our deficit under control is because Republicans are wusses and won't tell their base a simple fact that everyone knows. We can't eliminate the deficit without raising some revenue... They're wusses.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Control
  • Simple
  • Everyone

• I've always been careful to put out the very best work I can. One of the things I value the most is the love and faith that people have given me over the years, so I try to live up to their expectations and my own standards of what I'm capable of.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Perfect
  • Humility

• But Lord! to see the absurd nature of Englishmen, that cannot forbear laughing and jeering at every thing that looks strange.

  

  Samuel Pepys
  • Nature

• If an interaction is too weak to be detectable or to exert influence in any way, then by any operational definition, it doesn’t exist.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• The beth din is the court of the chief rabbi. I see myself taking an active role within the beth din.

  

  Ephraim Mirvis

• Can they do both? That's a huge balance, I think, with kids- trying to find the right- it's everything, you know, it's social life, it's academics, it's sports.

  

  Joan Cusack
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Kids

• It's also possible to have two third person singular points of view, as represented by two characters through whose eyes the story is told in alternating chapters, say.

  

  Arthur Herzog
  • Eyes

• For all my love little monsters i am your mom you are my child in my hand i protect you like my eyes but dont worry ill cacth you if you fall.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Children
  • Eyes
  • Hand

• Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker of his era.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Athlete

• Some taxpayers close their eyes, some stop their ears, some shut their mouths, but all pay through the nose.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Eyes
  • Ears
  • Taxpayers