Max Eastman Quotes

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Patriotism is one of the unalterable facts of man's nature. It is a virtue if you like it, and a vice if you don't like it.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

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

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

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.

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

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

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

He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.

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

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

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

Dogs laugh but they laugh with their tails.

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