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
  • Ahimsa
  • Hinduism

• 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
  • Foreign
  • Warfare

• 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

• Not playing would be worse. These games are very important for our team. It doesn't matter what condition, I'm going to do my best. At least my mind is healthy.

  

  Bobby Abreu
  • Team
  • Playing
  • Healthy

• The leader is best, When people are hardly aware of his existence, Not so good when people praise his government, Less good when people stand in fear, Worst, when people are contemptuous. Fail to honor people, and they will fail to honor you. But of a good leader, who speaks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, The people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Government
  • Leader
  • Existence

• The self-hatred that destroys is the waste of unfulfilled promise.

  

  Moss Hart
  • Promise
  • Hatred
  • Waste

• The only purpose in requesting it was to demand the release of the Americans that they’ve detained, given the sensitivity of that subject, I don’t want to go beyond what I said, that I requested the meeting, and I did have a discussion with them, and that’s as much as I can say on it.

  

  Brian H. Hook
  • Purpose
  • Americans
  • Subject

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

  

  Evan Esar
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  • Lecturers
  • Emptying