Quote: Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. [Max Eastman]
Quote: Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together. [Max Eastman]
Quote: A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. [Max Eastman]
Quote: The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. [Max Eastman]
Quote: 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. [Max Eastman]
Quote: A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything. [Max Eastman]
Quote: A smile is the universal welcome. [Max Eastman]
Quote: Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. [Max Eastman]
Quote: Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. [Max Eastman]
Quote: I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while. [Max Eastman]
Quote: It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. [Max Eastman]
Quote: People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. [Max Eastman]
Quote: Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest. [Max Eastman]
Quote: The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them. [Max Eastman]
Quote: It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor. [Max Eastman]
Quote: 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. [Max Eastman]
Quote: The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. [Max Eastman]
Quote: A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. [Max Eastman]
Quote: People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo. [Max Eastman]
Quote: A smile is the universal welcome. [Max Eastman]
Quote: 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. [Max Eastman]
Quote: Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest. [Max Eastman]
Quote: Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. [Max Eastman]
Quote: 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. [Max Eastman]
Quote: Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. [Max Eastman]