Evan Esar Quotes
- Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits than under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
- We can't do much about the length of our lives, but we can do plenty about it's width and depth.
- Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration,and inspiration.
- Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
- Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
- Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
- Admiration: Our feeling of delight that another person resembles us.
- 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.
- The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.
- Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.