Evan Esar Quotes

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Remaining here might not be good for your health.

There is a risk between toxicity and hazard. Just because it is a risk doesn't mean you are in danger.

Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy.

People have perceived dangers and real dangers, but to politicians, it's all the same.

It is very dangerous to write the truth in war, and the truth is very dangerous to come by.

The leaks can kill you.

Ignorance and confidence is a lethal cocktail.

It's been reported a lot that I've had two bouts of mononucleosis. The evidence suggests it wasn't two bouts, it was the same bout. I never got over it the first time. That's hard to explain to people. It makes it look like I'm not very resilient, whereas it was completely mismanaged.

As a physician for over 30 years, I am well aware of the dangers infectious diseases pose.

A man sits as many risks as he runs.

The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted.

Mixing oil and testosterone can be dangerous.

The closest I ever came to death was masturbating with a 104-degree temperature.

This is really the common mentality of prisoners: they read with great attention all the articles that deal with illnesses and send away for treatises and "be your own doctor" or "emergency treatments" and end up by discovering that they have at least 300 or 400 illnesses, whose symptoms they are experiencing.

Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.

It was more dangerous not to go; I was running the risk of becoming trapped in my own fantasies. So I was doing the right thing by going. She would behave normally, I would behave normally, and everything would be normal again.

One who rushes madly after inordinate desire, runs the risk of encountering destruction and death.

I told my doctor I think my wife has VD. He gave himself a shot of penicillin.

'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

The brave man is intelligent; he faces danger because he understands it and is prepared to meet it. The drunkard who runs, in the delirium of intoxication, into a burning house is not brave; he is only stupid. But the clear-eyed hero who makes his way, with every sense alert and every nerve strung, into the hell of flames to rescue some little child, proves his courage.

As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.