There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.
Max BeerbohmThe hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.
Max BeerbohmStrange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.
Max Beerbohm