Max Eastman famous quotes

04-17-2025

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
-- Max Eastman

#Dog #Laughter #Laughing
A smile is the universal welcome.
-- Max Eastman

#Happiness #Smile #Laughter
It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
-- Max Eastman

#Humor #Ability #Prove
The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
-- Max Eastman

#Men #Enemy #Brain
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
-- Max Eastman

#Writing #Artist #Defining
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
-- Max Eastman

#Laughter #Together #Speech
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
-- Max Eastman

#Pain #Laughter #Instinct
People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
-- Max Eastman

#Diversity #People #Culture
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.
-- Max Eastman

#Dog #Laughter #Men
Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
-- Max Eastman

#Laughter #Play #Brain
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.
-- Max Eastman

#Self #Pleasure #Conscious
A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
-- Max Eastman

#Believe #Mind #Able
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.
-- Max Eastman

#Land #Play #Goal
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.
-- Max Eastman

#Lying #Fall #Thinking
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind
-- Max Eastman

#Choices #Mind #Unions
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke
-- Max Eastman

#Rooms #Next #Poet
Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
-- Max Eastman

#Revenge #Opportunity #Doors
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.
-- Max Eastman

#Men #Patriotism #Facts
The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.
-- Max Eastman

#Real #Liberty #Guarantees
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
-- Max Eastman

#Art #Bears #Classic
Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.
-- Max Eastman

#Art #Lying #Style
He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.
-- Max Eastman

#Art #Believe #Men

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