Evan Esar Quotes

It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.

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• I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Home
  • Green

• Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Respect
  • Understand
  • Try

• I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Long
  • Women
  • Deep

• When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Me

• Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Alive
  • Jazz
  • Progressive

• I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Real
  • Me

• People know me for up – tempo songs because of my hits.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • People
  • Know
  • Songs

• For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
  • People
  • Great
  • Thought

• You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Music
  • Want

• Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Time
  • Small

• That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Why
  • Doing
  • Tradition

• Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • American
  • Age

• We talk about issues, but I'm not his adviser, I'm his wife... I find that it's really best not to give your spouse a lot of advice. I don't want a lot of advice from him.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Wife
  • Advice

• A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • House
  • Garden

• I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • Today
  • Presidential

• When I was at AOL, I was always on the web media side while much of the company was focused on the ISP business. We focused on big categories like celebrities and sports, and we created brands around that category like AOL Celebrities, AOL Movies and Fanhouse.

  

  Jim Bankoff
  • Business
  • Sports

• The people of the FBI sacrifice much for their country, and I am proud to lead this organization of dedicated agents, analysts, and professional staff.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • Country
  • Proud

• My favorite part is the preparation because you read on the page, you get this character.

  

  Ashley Scott
  • Character
  • Preparation

• Sorrow eats your heart and courage.

  

  Ernst Moritz Arndt
  • Heart
  • Courage
  • Sorrow

• Now all persons who have spent much of their time in Germany, and certainly all born Germans, have a great fear of the law. Their one idea is not to attract its attention, to be inconspicuous, to crawl in time, as it were, under tables. Accordingly, when I saw myself within reach of its clutches, even though it was English law and presumably more mild, I began to tremble, while the children, being born Germans, trembled harder, and Elsa the maid, not only born German but of the class which can least easily defend itself, trembled hardest of anybody.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Law
  • Attention
  • Idea

• The United States Congress, acting with large bipartisan majorities, at the urging of the President, enacted as the law of the land that all children are to be above average.

  

  Charles A. Murray
  • Children
  • Law
  • Acting

• It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Law
  • Courage
  • Violate