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Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. - Max Eastman

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully. – Max Eastman

Other quotes by Max Eastman

Emotion is the surest arbiter of a poetic choice, and it is the priest of all supreme unions in the mind. – Max Eastman

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Emotions
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Max Eastman
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Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end. – Max Eastman

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Laughter
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Max Eastman
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Other Quotes from
Humor
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Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, Breakfast of Champions is one of the funniest books Ive ever read. – Justin Halpern

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Humor

I dont think I would describe my sense of humor. Doesnt sound like the kind of thing Id do. – Tommy Lee Jones

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Humor

Im not just a big-haired redhead country singer who dresses flamboyantly, has this wicked sense of humor and wears rhinestones. – Naomi Judd

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Humor

I am a candid interview and I have a dark and dry sense of humor – a very Canadian sense of humor and I am only learning now stupidly that you cant read tongue. When I say something funny in a newspaper and I meant it to be funny, it doesnt read that way. – Michael Buble

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Humor

Random Quotes

The flower that you hold in your hands was born today and already it is as old as you are. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Time

Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but thats because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection. – Richard Dawkins

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car

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. – Albert Einstein

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Insanity

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess. – Samuel Johnson

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Imagination