Evan Esar People Quotations

Some people worry because they are in debt; others, because they can't even get in.

If it required some effort to go from today to tomorrow, some people would always remain in yesterday.

Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches.

Bureaucracy is more people doing less things, and taking more time to do them worse.

Egocentricity: The vanity that makes you wonder what people are thinking about you when they are really wondering what you are thinking about them.

Communism is a form of society where the less people have to eat, the more they have to swallow.

Some people would never get any exercise at all if they didn't have to walk to their cars.

Some people blow their top, but all people blow their bottom.

There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.

Worry makes people thin, except when they worry about being fat.

Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed.

About the only time Congress conforms to the will of the people is when it decides to adjourn.

Congress would give the people what they wanted if the people knew what they wanted, and if Congress could give it to them.

Under dictatorship, the people in prison are always superior to the people who put them there.

The difference between us and other people is that their money looks bigger and their troubles smaller.