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Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.
There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.
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.
Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
If one were loyal to one's nation only because it was good and true ... one would not be loyal to any nation but to truth and goodness. The idea of patriotism would have no place either in our dictionaries or our lives.
Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
A smile is the universal welcome.
Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
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.
There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
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 seems obvious to me now – though I have been slow, I must say, in coming to the conclusion – that the institution of private property is one of the main things that have given man that limited amount of free-and-equalness that Marx hoped to render infinite by abolishing this institution. Strangely enough Marx was the first to see this. He is the one who informed us, looking backwards, that the evolution of private capitalism with its free market had been a precondition for the evolution of all our democratic freedoms. It never occurred to him, looking forward, that if this was so, these other freedoms might disappear with the abolition of the free market.
