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Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.

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

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

There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

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

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

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

Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

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

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

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

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

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.

A smile is the universal welcome.

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.

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.

He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.

The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.

History is not an escalator.

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

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