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Evan Esar: top 200 quotes
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Baseball (n.) is a sport in which the greatest applause an umpire ever gets is silence.
Revenge (n.) is the only debt which it is wrong to pay.
Christmas (n.) is a guest that always comes a month before arriving.
A University (n.) is not a place that make fools; it merely develops them.
Sunday (n.) is what it takes to make a house look lived in.
A Dandy (n.) is a show-off who turns a girl's head, and everyone else's stomach.
Success (n.) is a matter of buying your experience cheap and selling it at a profit.
Success (n.) is less about the advice you take than the advice you ignore.
Success (n.) depends more often on your own will than on a rich relative's.
Success (n.) goes to your head, failure to your heart.
Success (n.) is dependent on either having a chance or taking one.
Success (n.) is largely a matter of keeping in the groove while keeping out of a rut.
Success (n.) is paradoxical: most men get to the top by going to the bottom of things.
Success (n.) is the difference between doing good and making good.
Politics (n.) is where the self-made man seldom wins against the machine-made candidate.
Politics (n.) is made up of three parts: complaints, compliments and compromise.
Politics (n.) is the art of promise; statesmanship, the art of compromise.