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

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

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

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

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

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.