Another savage trait of our time is the disposition to talk about material substances instead of about ideas. The old civilisation talked about the sin of gluttony or excess. We talk about the Problem of Drink--as if drink could be a problem. When pe...
it will be generally found that the popular joke is not true to the letter, but is true to the spirit. The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.
The pure modernist is merely a snob; he cannot bear to be a month behind the fashion.
...the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.
The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic.
The joke is generally in the oddest way the truth and yet not the fact.
One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.
