Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.
Max EastmanPatriotism 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.
Max EastmanPeople who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
Max EastmanI 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.
Max EastmanDogs 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.
Max Eastman