Evan Esar

Puzzles

• Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who ___ them.
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• Some ___ close their eyes, some stop their ears, some shut their mouths, but all pay through the nose.
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• ___ speaking is the art of diluting a two-minute idea with a two-hour vocabulary.
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Quotes

• Which one of these four quotes is attributed to Evan Esar?

  • → The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
  • → When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
  • → America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
  • → Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
  
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• Pick the quote attributed to Evan Esar.

  • → Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.
  • → Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.
  • → Love is not blind. It sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.
  • → An aphorism that does not score is just one more sentence.
  
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• Select the quotation attributed to Evan Esar.

  • → I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.
  • → A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
  • → Environmentalists have a very conflicted relationship with their cars.
  • → The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.
  
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