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
  • 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

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

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Forever
  • Cost
  • Frugality

• The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Angry
  • Learned
  • Lessons

• To see with one's own eyes, to feel and judge without succumbing to the suggestive power of the fashion of the day, to be able to express what one has seen and felt in a snappy sentence or even in a cunningly wrought word - is that not glorious? Is it not a proper subject for congregation?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Word
  • Subject
  • Glorious

• I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Christmas
  • Subject
  • Introduce

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

  

  Evan Esar
  • Subject
  • Lecturers
  • Emptying