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Evan Esar
Age: 95 †
Born: 1899
Born: January 1
Died: 1995
Died: January 1
American Humorist
Humorist
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Thought
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Life is a game played on us while we are playing other games.
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An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom a wisecrack, their divorce.
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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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A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.
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All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.
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An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.
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Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.
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A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.
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You are not fully dressed until you wear a smile.
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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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A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat.
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A homosexual is the only man who ever meets a man he would like to marry if he were a woman.
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The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery--amputation at the neck.
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Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
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[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.
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[A mathematician is a] scientist who can figure out anything except such simple things as squaring the circle and trisecting an angle.
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The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.
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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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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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Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.
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