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Evan Esar
Age: 95 †
Born: 1899
Born: January 1
Died: 1995
Died: January 1
American Humorist
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A good loser is all right, but it isn't so much fun to beat him.
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After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.
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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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Do a little more every day than you are expected to do, and soon you will be expected to do more.
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The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.
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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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Corrupt officials are usually close-mouthed and open-handed.
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Some people blow their top, but all people blow their bottom.
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The lazy man claims he is too heavy for light work and too light for heavy work.
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Communism is a form of society where the less people have to eat, the more they have to swallow.
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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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The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.
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Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
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Congress would give the people what they wanted if the people knew what they wanted, and if Congress could give it to them.
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Many a husband lives to regret the extravagant fee he bestowed upon the minister who sentenced him.
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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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Divorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock.
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Etymology: from Latin ad-, to + visum, past participle of videre, to see. Advice is what you get from your parents when you are growing up, and from your children when you are growing old.
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The only time a lazy man ever succeeds is when he tries to do nothing.
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[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.
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