Evan Esar Quotes
There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.
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I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
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If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.
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I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.
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One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'
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Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictivelyMade in his image a mannikin merely to madden it?
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That should probably be written: no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon
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Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.
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During the course of many years of investigation into the plant life of the world, creating new forms, modifying old ones, adapting others to new conditions, and blending still others, I have constantly been impressed with the similarity between the organization and development of plant and human life.
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Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.
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The people of Alabama are fed up. They are tired of politicians who lie to them, and they are sick of elected officials who've been in Washington so long they've forgotten why they ran in the first place.
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You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.
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I'd had to grow up pretty quickly, and going back to drama school gave me a chance to be with people my own age and do normal things, like going to a pub on a Friday night and just hanging out.
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People who run for president seriously and people who become president enter a bizarre secret society in which they have had an experience that none of us will ever have.
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For one man who can introduce another to Jesus Christ by the way he lives and by the atmosphere of his life, there are a thousand who can only talk jargon about him.
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Actually," Alan said, earnest and clear-eyed, "this is my first time playing poker.
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The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred
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Love will fly if held too lightly Love will die if held too tightly . . .
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There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.
