Famous Quotes / Max Eastman
8 Quotations by Max Eastman
- 1. A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off towa ...

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

- 3. Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the ...

- 4. Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

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

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

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

- 8. The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
