Evan Esar Quotes

On this page you can find the TOP of Evan Esar's best quotes! We hope you will find some sayings from American humorist Evan Esar's in our collection, which will inspire you to new achievements! There are currently 209 quotes on this page collected since 1899! Share our collection of quotes with your friends on social media so that they can find something to inspire them!
  • A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

  • Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths.

  • Many a girl who can't dance well makes up for it during intermission.

  • Some couples divorce because of a misunderstandin g; others, because they understand each other too well.

  • The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired [talking].

  • A special skill, like speaking several languages, or keeping your mouth shut in one.

  • A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat.

  • There's only one thing worse than to live without working, and that is to work without living.

  • Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

  • Hindsight is good, foresight is better; but second sight is best of all.

  • When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.

  • About the only time Congress conforms to the will of the people is when it decides to adjourn.

  • A smart mother suggests that her child bring an apple to his teacher; a smarter mother suggests that he bring a couple of aspirins.

  • Man is the control experiment of heredity and environment; and since his heredity controls him, he tries to control his environment.

  • A good loser is all right, but it isn't so much fun to beat him.

  • The trouble with dieting is that a pound of will power takes off only an ounce of weight.

  • The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.

  • Many an actor does the stage more ham than good.

  • It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.

  • You can always make a loan at a bank if you can show sufficient evidence that you don't need it.

  • Adam and Eve were the first of all unions to defy management.

  • Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.

  • Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.

  • The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.

  • Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.

  • If it required some effort to go from today to tomorrow, some people would always remain in yesterday.

  • The chief ability of an executive should be his ability to recognize ability.

  • A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.

  • In elections, the undecided vote is usually the deciding factor.

  • Lecturers should remember that the capacity of the mind to absorb is limited to what the seat can endure.

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  • We hope you have found the saying you were looking for in our collection! At the moment, we have collected 209 quotes from the American humorist Evan Esar, starting from 1899! We periodically replenish our collection so that visitors of our website can always find inspirational quotes by authors from all over the world! Come back to us again!