Evan Esar Quotes

The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.

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• I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Home
  • Cold
  • Christmas

• What if I said that every photograph I made was set up? From the photograph, you can't prove otherwise. You don't know anything from the photograph about how it was made, really.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Up
  • Made
  • Prove

• I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Thing
  • Very

• When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Community
  • Judge
  • Institution

• We needed something dramatic. Maybe you have a different perspective when you're seeing it from the bench. It's kind of interesting how you can see things a whole lot easier from the bench than from when you're on the floor.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Interesting
  • Dramatic
  • Bench

• Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Hinduism
  • Ahimsa

• Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Law
  • Charity

• I didn't grow up as a religious person under any sort of system or anything like that, I just felt like I've always been sort of intrigued by that - how it can make people's lives better - I mean, it's a powerful thing. So I was interested in thinking about that kind of stuff.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Kind

• Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as "foreign war"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Civil War
  • Warfare
  • Foreign

• Heart is fun for the whole family!

  

  Nancy Wilson Heart
  • Family
  • Heart
  • Fun

• ...Their problem was not that they failed to believe in God; it was that they did not know God; it was that they did not know God. It took only one generation for that knowledge to be lost. But it’s also true that what can be lost in one generation can also be restored in one generation

  

  Colin S. Smith
  • God
  • Believe
  • Know

• Winter is beautiful, but bed is better.

  

  Arnold Lobel
  • Winter
  • Bed

• Work is what you do for others, liebchen. Art is what you do for yourself.

  

  Stephen Sondheim
  • Work
  • Art

• Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass.

  

  Sarah Kane
  • Body
  • Dancing
  • Glass

• Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Forever
  • Cost
  • Frugality

• Television is very different than working on film. With films, you get to develop a set of characters, and then, at the end of the film, you have to throw them away.

  

  Jonathan Nolan
  • Film
  • Television
  • Difference

• ⋅Benedict XVI leaves no room for uncertainty or minimization. At this present time in which she feels humiliation, the Church learns from the Pope to not fear the truth, even when it is painful, to not hide it or cover it up. However, this does not mean enduring strategies to discredit (the Church) in general...It is appropriate, then, that we all return to calling things by their names at all times, to identify evil in all of its gravity and in the multiplicity of its manifestations.

  

  Angelo Bagnasco
  • Truth
  • Fear
  • Church

• The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.

  

  Evan Esar
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