Evan Esar Quotes

Most popular Evan Esar Quotes

Silence is the only thing that can't be misquoted!
— Evan Esar
Conversation is a verbal exchange of 90% talking and 10% listening.
— Evan Esar

listening conversation

Anger—the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.
— Evan Esar

anger

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.
— Evan Esar

character

Public speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
— Evan Esar

oratory

Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.
— Evan Esar

statistics

The trouble with the family is that children grow out of childhood, but parents never grow out of parenthood.
— Evan Esar The Comic Encyclopedia

family

Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once.
— Evan Esar

funny insults

Definition of a Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
— Evan Esar

statistics