(17 quotes found)
“It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.”
Max Eastman
“Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.”
“Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.”
“People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo”
“Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.”
“A smile is the universal welcome.”
“A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go.”
“Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind”
“A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything”
“Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.”
