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

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

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

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. And a tail is an awkward thing to laugh with, as you can see by the way they bend themselves half double in extreme hilarity trying to get that rear-end exuberance forward into the main scene of action. What puts man on a higher stage of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.

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.

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.

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