Max Eastman Quotes

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

Mind, Him, Goal

A smile is the universal welcome.
Max Eastman

Smile, Welcome, Universal

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

Pet, Laugh, Dogs

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman

Humor, Pain, Taking

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

Situation, Status, Favor

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

Men, Hope, Enemy

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

Humor, Sense, Joke

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

Mind, Able, Believing

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

History, Joke, Next

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

Art, Romantic, Chance

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
Max Eastman

Mind, Choice, Emotion

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

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.
Max Eastman

Art, Life, Beauty

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

Society, Laughter, Together

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

Down, Lies, Rest

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

Artist, Cherish, Function

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: January 4, 1883

Died: March 25, 1969

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