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. |
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. |
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything |
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke. |
A smile is the universal welcome. |
Chemical stimulation blunted the edge of Edna's otherwise so carefully cherished genius |
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance. |
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. |
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. |
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. |
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind |
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. |
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. |
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. |