Evan Esar Quotes

The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

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• There has always been quite a strong black and white art tradition in Australia, with quite a large contingent of cartoonists, given the size of the population.

  

  Pat Oliphant
  • Art
  • Black
  • Strong

• I have been challenged with the fictional languages I have to learn. I wasn't terrible at languages at school - I got an A in French, so I did well enough - but I didn't enjoy them. I'm not even sure if that plays into how well you learn a fictional language!

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
  • School
  • Language
  • Learn

• People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Power
  • Party

• When ships to sail the void between the stars have been built, there will step forth men to sail these ships.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Stars
  • Ships
  • Sail

• I'm scared every time I go into the ring, but it's how you handle it. What you have to do is plant your feet, bite down on your mouthpiece and say, 'Let's go.'

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Plant
  • Scared
  • Mouthpiece

• When, however, you have an enemy, then do not requite him good for evil: for that would shame him. Instead, prove that he did some good for you. And rather be angry than put to shame! And when you are cursed, I do not like it that you want to bless. Rather curse a little also! And if you are done a great injustice, then quickly add five small ones. Hideous to behold is he who is obsessed with an injustice.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Enemy
  • Shame
  • Injustice

• My nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger and leaving the dear ones unprotected.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Danger
  • Nonviolence
  • Running Away

• The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Success
  • Moment
  • Crowd

• In the B-52s, we employ a lot of people. It's a machine that keeps it all going, which is wonderful.

  

  Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s
  • Wonderful
  • Machine
  • Employ

• I think there is a dissonance between how much is expected of you as a young person, whether you are a man or a woman: you are supposed to go to university; you get a master's degree, maybe two, particularly if you come from the middle class.

  

  Ayobami Adebayo
  • Expected
  • Degree
  • Middle-class

• Oh, the twenties and the thirties were not otherwise designedThan other times when blind men into ditches led the blind,When the rich mouse ate the cheese and the poor mouse got the rind,And man, the self-destroyer, was not lucid in his mind.

  

  William Plomer
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Rich

• By worrying as little as possible about fame.

  

  Diogenes
  • Fame
  • Possible
  • Worrying

• Our whole economy is based on planned obsolescence...we make good products, we induce people to buy them, and then the next year we deliberately introduce something that will make these products old-fashioned, out of date, obsolete.

  

  Brooks Stevens
  • People
  • Economy
  • Introduce

• Two years ago, the Supreme Court handed down an 8–1 decision that found the 1875 Civil Rights unconstitutional.

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Decision
  • Found
  • Civil Rights

• Conservative coaches have one thing in common; they are unemployed.

  

  Chuck Knox
  • Common
  • Conservative
  • Coaches

• Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure. For the crowd supposes that anything it cannot see to the bottom must be deep: it is so timid and goes so unwillingly into the water.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Obscure
  • Tries
  • Supposes

• The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Succeeds
  • Tries
  • Lazy Guy