There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.

Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.

A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.

There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.

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

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.