Quotes from Evan Esar

Setelah kebijaksanaan akan muncul kebahagiaan.

Character is what you have when you've lost everything you can loose.

The trouble with child training is that parents teach their children not how to behave, but how not to behave.

All things come to him who waits, but they are mostly leftovers from those who didn't wait.

Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind

A signature always reveals a man's character -and sometimes even his name.

Uma assinatura revela sempre o caráter de uma pessoa - e, às vezes, até o seu nome

To a teenager, it cannot be true love if her family approves of him.

Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

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.

Canada's climate is nine months winter and three months late in the fall.

A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.

Many a man who falls in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat.

A husband is like a fire. He goes out when unattended.

Many a wedding takes place when a man can't afford to go steady with a girl any longer.

After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.

Every bride and groom would do well to remember that in wedding, the we comes before the I.

A word to the wise is -- unnecessary.

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

An epigram is the marriage of wit and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.

It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.

After wisdom comes wit.