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Evan Esar Author

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: 1899
  • Died: 1995

Evan Esar was an American humorist who wrote "Esar's Comic Dictionary" in 1943, "Humorous English" in 1961, and "20,000 Quips and Quotes" in 1968. He is known for quotes like "Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions." He also wrote The Legend of Joe Miller, which was privately printed for members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco by the Grabhorn Press in 1957.

His quotes are commonly found in Crossword puzzles.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

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

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.

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.