Evan Esar

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Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
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Collection: Science
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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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Collection: Work
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Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
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Collection: Home
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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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Collection: Business
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Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
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Collection: Hope
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We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.
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Collection: Volunteer
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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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Collection: Laughter
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You are not fully dressed until you wear a smile.
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Collection: Your Smile
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Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
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Collection: Inspirational
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If you want to be different nowadays, just act normal.
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Collection: Differences
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Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
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Collection: Anger
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In a democracy, you believe it or not; in a dictatorship, you believe it or else.
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Collection: Believe
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There are two kinds of leaders: those who are interested in the flock, and those who are interested in the fleece.
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Collection: Leadership
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You can always make a loan at a bank if you can show sufficient evidence that you don't need it.
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Collection: Needs
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If it required some effort to go from today to tomorrow, some people would always remain in yesterday.
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Collection: Yesterday
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The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.
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Collection: Equality
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Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
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Collection: Thinking
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Family: A social unit where the father is concerned with parking space, the children with outer space, and the mother with closet space.
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Collection: Family
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An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.
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Collection: Confusing
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The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight.
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Collection: Pounds
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Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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Collection: Science
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Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.
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Collection: Sight
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There's only one thing worse than to live without working, and that is to work without living.
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Collection: Work
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All men are created equal and endowed by their Creator with a mighty urge to become otherwise.
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Collection: Equality
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The best time to give advice to your children is while they're still young enough to believe you know what you're talking about.
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Collection: Funny
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Some couples divorce because of a misunderstandin g; others, because they understand each other too well.
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Collection: Couple
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Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
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Collection: Character
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The best way to spoil a good story is by sticking to the facts.
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Collection: Stories
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Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you deserve with what you have, and you'll be happy.
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Collection: Perspective
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The Lord takes care of his own, but church trustees still put lightning rods on the steeple.
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Collection: Church
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A batch of credit cards fattens a wallet before it thins it.
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Collection: Cards
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Conceit is a disease That the doctors got no cure They've done a lot of research on it But what it is, they're still not sure.
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Collection: Doctors
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After wisdom comes wit.
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Collection: Wisdom
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Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.
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Collection: Sight
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Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.
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Collection: Men
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Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower.
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Collection: Flower
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Many a woman would get a divorce if she could do it without making her husband happy.
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Collection: Husband
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The state of the Union largely depends on the state of the unions.
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Collection: Unions
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The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.
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Collection: Divorce
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An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.
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Collection: Men
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The honeymoon is the only period when a woman isn't trying to reform her husband.
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Collection: Husband
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Good teachers cost a lot; but, poor teachers cost a lot more.
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Collection: Education
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Egocentric: A person who has his I's too close together.
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Collection: Together
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A man picks a wife about the same way an apple picks a farmer.
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Collection: Men
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The modern dance is no dance in the first place, and when you've finally learned it, it's not modern any more.
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Collection: Dance
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A credit card is a convenient device that saves you the trouble of counting your change.
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Collection: Cards
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A girl never cares who casts the first stone at her -- as long as it's a diamond
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Collection: Girl
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To a teenager, it cannot be true love if her family approves of him.
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Collection: Teenager
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If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.
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Collection: Want
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Don't tear your hair out over a woman; it'll be harder to attract the next one if you're bald.
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Collection: Hair