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Evan Esar (1899 - 1995)
American Humorist [more author details]
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A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended.
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A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.
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America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
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Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
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Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
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Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
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Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
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Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
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The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
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The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.
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Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
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You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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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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Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
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Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
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Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
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Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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