Robert Benchley Has A Style That Is

It Is The Ability To Take A Joke, Not Make One, That Proves You Have A Sense Of Humor.

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.

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.

He [p.g.wodehouse] Is I Believe, The Only Man Living Who Speaks With Equal Fluency The American And English Languages.

The Defining Function Of The Artist Is To Cherish Consciousness.