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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 dictator's chief problem is keeping the stomachs of his subjects full while keeping their heads empty.
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Some people blow their top, but all people blow their bottom.
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To a teenager, it cannot be true love if her family approves of him.
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With a braggart, it's no sooner done than said.
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All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait.
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A home in the country is what a city man hopes to buy and a farmer hopes to sell.
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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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Communism is a form of society where the less people have to eat, the more they have to swallow.
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Times change: it was once the custom to take a bath weekly and religion daily.
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[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics.
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The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.
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The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.
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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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Many a woman would get a divorce if she could do it without making her husband happy.
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A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
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Some couples divorce because of a misunderstandin g others, because they understand each other too well.
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A bureaucrat is an official who is clothed with power and whom it doesn't fit.
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A good loser is all right, but it isn't so much fun to beat him.
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There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.
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The computer saves man a lot of guesswork, but so does the bikini.
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