Top 40 Max Eastman Quotes
#1. Freud wrote a book on the essence of humor, but he didn't know what he was talking about. Max Eastman wrote a book, The Enjoyment of Laughter, that was a much better book, but nobody bothered to read it.
John Gould
#2. The early ascendancy of leisure as a means of reputability is traceable to the archaic distinction between noble and ignoble employments. Leisure is honourable and becomes imperative partly because it shows exemption from ignoble labour.
Thorstein Veblen
#3. Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind.
Max Eastman
#4. Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails.
Max Eastman
#5. Employees are your most valuable assets. They are the heart and guts of a company. This doesn't mean that from time to time, you aren't going to do what is good for the company.
Carlos Ghosn
#6. Tex glared at the next customer, the unfortunate who'd opened his mouth. She's a badass motherfuckeress. She'd kick your ass soon as look at you. You've clapped your eyes on The Law. Count yourself lucky, sucker. Now what'll it fuckin' be?
Kristen Ashley
#7. Humor is a kind of emotional chaos told about calmly and quietly in retrospect.There is always a laugh in the utterly familiar.
Max Eastman
#8. Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.
Max Eastman
#9. Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
Max Eastman
#10. Why don't you learn from my mistakes? It takes half your life to learn from your own.
Shelagh Delaney
#11. It was truly a splendid structure, and Yossarian throbbed with a mighty sense of accomplishment each time he gazed at it and reflected that none of the work that had gone into it was his. There
Joseph Heller
#12. To be fair, it's not just cycling - the term "sporty" isn't used to describe me. I don't run unless something is chasing me, and I have some kind of visual-spatial ball deficiency.
Eileen Cook
#14. The real guarantee of freedom is an equilibrium of social forces in conflict, not the triumph of any one force.
Max Eastman
#15. The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Max Eastman
#16. 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.
Max Eastman
#17. There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.
Max Eastman
#18. Up to you if you want to go out with a
boner like some creepy old perv.
Sherilee Gray
#19. In moments they would be here - the ones Kircher had called the Cenobites, theologians of the Order of the Gash. Summoned from their experiments in the higher reaches of pleasure, to bring their ageless heads into a world of rain and failure.
Clive Barker
#20. Patriotism 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 Eastman
#21. Laughter is, after speech, the chief thing that holds society together.
Max Eastman
#22. Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.
Max Eastman
#23. A liberal mind is a mind that is able to imagine itself believing anything.
Max Eastman
#24. It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.
Max Eastman
#25. There is truth in the high opinion that in so far as a man conforms, he ceases to exist.
Max Eastman
#26. People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.
Max Eastman
#27. The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.
Max Eastman
#28. Laughter puts your brain, your central nervous system and your whole being into a state of free play.
Max Eastman
#29. He [P.G.Wodehouse] is I believe, the only man living who speaks with equal fluency the American and English languages.
Max Eastman
#30. It's a very hard thing for all of us to accept ourselves at all the different stages - the horrible side, the wonderful side, the adorable side - and who you are as a grownup. And then to bring what you learned as a child to that grownup: that is the magic of creativity.
Ellen Greene
#31. Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
Martin Heidegger
#34. Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Max Eastman
#35. A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.
Max Eastman
#36. I have tried to be a leader. I have tried in my role of being one of the first women at Google, let alone the first woman to have a baby, to really try to set the tone that this is a great place to work for diversity reasons.
Susan Wojcicki
#37. I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in ... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
Sam Shepard
#38. 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.
Max Eastman
#39. I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a feminist doesn't mean I'm gonna say that I like every other woman's work, or that I appreciate another statement that another woman publicly made.
Kathleen Hanna
#40. If one were loyal to one's nation only because it was good and true ... one would not be loyal to any nation but to truth and goodness. The idea of patriotism would have no place either in our dictionaries or our lives.
Max Eastman
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