"A husband is like a fire - he goes out when unattended." -- Evan Esar
Evan Esar (1899 - 1995) was an American humorist who wrote Esar's Comic Dictionary 1943 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.[1]
"A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.""A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.""America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.""Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.""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.""Definition of Statistics: The science of producing unreliable facts from reliable figures.""Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.""Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it.""The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.""The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.""Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings."