"The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been."

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Evan Esar

#Wise Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Becoming Quotes

“More like a chocolate molten lava cake. A dessert so sinful, so luscious, so filled with inner heat it made a girl want to lick each and every crumb right off the plate. That was Jack Pallas.”
“The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.”
“You never quite stop loving someone when you're in that deep.”
“The fact is that comedy is actually too serious to be taken seriously. It may be that comedy touches such deep emotions that people feel better if they can just dismiss it as trivial. Just take a big belly laugh. I have watched people laughing, and for a moment they look-and are-absolutely helpless. Vulnerability. You can be assaulted while you are laughing.”
“Everyone knows that a man can marry even if he reaches the age of 102, is penniless, and has all his facilities gone. There is always some woman willing to take a chance on him.”
“Biological family is too small of a vision. Patriotism is far too myopic. A love for our own relatives and a love for the people of our own country are not bad things, but our love does not stop at the border.”
“Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them.”
“When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.”

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