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..

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance..

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo..

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything..

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully..

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness..

Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play..

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails..

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them..

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. And a tail is an awkward thing to laugh with, as you can see by the way they bend themselves half double….

Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar..

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 y….

If one were loyal to one's nation only because it was good and true ... one would not be loyal to any nation but to truth and goodness. The idea of p….

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force..

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door..

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure..

Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest..

Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together..

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist..