Reginald De Koven quotes

“So laugh, lads, and quaff, lads, twill make you stout and hale; through all my days, I'll sing the praise of brown October ale.”
-- Reginald De Koven

Source : Reginald De Koven, Harry Bache Smith (1898). “Robin Hood: A Comic Opera in Three Acts”

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“Of beer, an enthusiast has said that it could never be bad, but that some brands might be better than others.”

“You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.”

“She frowned."You're not very friendly." I let out a short laugh."What?I'm not friendly to a ghost who floats into my house and starts touching me?Well,excuse my rudeness but this is a little disturbing.”

“It's funny, the hardest thing to do is to make something look like it's fast, loose and improvised, and get somebody to laugh.”

Source : "Dwight Howard: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. October 17, 2011.

“If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.”

Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation

“I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion.”

“Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.”

“I'm not comically oriented. I get angry and I start complaining and then people start laughing. I don't even want them to laugh half the time.”

“It is one of the ironies of this strange century that the most lasting results of the October revolution, whose object was the global overthrow of capitalism, was to save its antagonist, both in war and in peace - that is to say, by providing it with the incentive, fear, to reform itself after the Second World War, and, by establishing the popularity of economic planning, furnishing it with some of the procedures for its reform”

“October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen.”