Englishwomen’s shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.
Margaret Halsey
1899 - 1995. American humorist.
1. "[Statistics] The science that can prove everything except the usefulness of statistics."
source: "Esar's Comic Dictionary"
Categories: Science and Technology
2. "[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form."
source: "Esar's Comic Dictionary"
Categories: Science and Technology -:- Reality and Imagination
3. "You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth."
Categories: Life and Death
4. "The girl with a future avoids a man with a past."
Categories: Woman and Man
5. "Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them."
Categories: Memory -:- Various
6. "Housework is what a woman does that nobody notices unless she hasn't done it."
Categories: Family and Loneliness -:- Woman and Man
7. "Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment."
Categories: Optimism and Hope
8. "Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose."
Categories: Human
9. "America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week."
Categories: Richness and Money -:- Education
10. "A bacteriologist is a man whose conversation always start with the germ of an idea."
Categories: Science and Technology
2007, collected and compiled by Kazimierz Matan
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