Evan Esar Quotes
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Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
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A lecturer often makes you feel dumb at one end and numb at the other.
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Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed.
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If you don't like to make excuses or apologies, stop making promises.
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Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.
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You can't judge the ability of a doctor by the amount of praise the undertakers give him.
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Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.
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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
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Nowadays it's not who wears the pants in the family, but who carries the credit cards.
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Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.
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The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.
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The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
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Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
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Communism is a form of government under which every citizen at election time enjoys the privilege of voting Yes.
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Consistency is a jewel, but too much jewelry is vulgar.
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A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.
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A man picks a wife about the same way an apple picks a farmer.
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The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.
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Divorce has become so easy nowadays that women have stopped crying at weddings.
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The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.
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All work and no pay makes a housewife.
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A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea.
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Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
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The saddest thing in life is to marry a woman who looks like a cook--and isn't.