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Evan Esar
Age: 95 †
Born: 1899
Born: January 1
Died: 1995
Died: January 1
American Humorist
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It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.
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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 dictator's chief problem is keeping the stomachs of his subjects full while keeping their heads empty.
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The most uncommon form of intelligence is common sense.
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Many a girl who can't dance well makes up for it during intermission.
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The first requisite for a good cup of coffee in the morning is to get your wife out of bed.
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There's only one kind of common sense but a thousand varieties of stupidity.
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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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If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.
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A man picks a wife about the same way an apple picks a farmer.
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A good loser is all right, but it isn't so much fun to beat him.
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Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower.
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An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.
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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 wedding is the formality a man has to go through before going to work for a new boss.
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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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Communism is a form of society where the less people have to eat, the more they have to swallow.
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If you want to be successful, you must either have a chance or take one.
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Some people blow their top, but all people blow their bottom.
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Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.
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