Quote

A lazy man's wife is generally the power behind the drone.

Evan Esar

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Evan Esar
Age: 95 †
Born: 1899
Born: January 1
Died: 1995
Died: January 1
American Humorist
Humorist
Behinds
Behind
Wife
Drone
Power
Drones
Men
Laziness
Lazy
Generally

More quotes by Evan Esar

Image
An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.
Evan Esar
Image
It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.
Evan Esar
Image
A bright eye indicates curiosity a black eye, too much.
Evan Esar
Image
Congress would give the people what they wanted if the people knew what they wanted, and if Congress could give it to them.
Evan Esar
Image
Formerly when a man worked ten hours a day, it was called economic slavery nowadays it is called moonlighting.
Evan Esar
Image
It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.
Evan Esar
Image
The only place where you can find equality is in the cemetery.
Evan Esar
Image
Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.
Evan Esar
Image
The lecturer who is full of his subject is usually very slow in emptying himself.
Evan Esar
Image
The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery--amputation at the neck.
Evan Esar
Image
Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.
Evan Esar
Image
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.
Evan Esar
Image
The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.
Evan Esar
Image
The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.
Evan Esar
Image
Times change: it was once the custom to take a bath weekly and religion daily.
Evan Esar
Image
Do a little more every day than you are expected to do, and soon you will be expected to do more.
Evan Esar
Image
Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
Evan Esar
Image
Life is a game played on us while we are playing other games.
Evan Esar
Image
A man picks a wife about the same way an apple picks a farmer.
Evan Esar
Image
A wedding is the formality a man has to go through before going to work for a new boss.
Evan Esar