A smile is the universal welcome..

It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor..

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

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

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

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….

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

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..

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails..

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..

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

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..

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….

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

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully..

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..

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

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