Quotes by Max Eastman

“Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.”

“A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listeners 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 didnt expect to go.”

“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”

“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”

A smile is the universal welcome.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

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.

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

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

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.