Argument Quote by Anton Chekhov

“That's how it always is," Koznyshev interrupted him. "We Russians are always like that. Perhaps it's one of our good national characteristics. I mean…

— Leo Tolstoy

“In the 1970s, after the Damansky Island clashes, a joke began circulating: 'Optimists study English; pessimists study Chinese; and realists learn to use a…

— John Vaillant

Russian humor is to adapt or make some sense or nonsense out of the insanity of their lives.

— Ian Frazier

Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.

— Desiderius Erasmus

“For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the…

— Walker Percy

Sometimes I do readings and people can’t stop laughing, but I’m reading about pretty tragic things. I think Soviet humor is a desperate humor,…

— Alina Bronsky

If you can make someone laugh about something that your opponent or your opposition thinks, that means you've done a really good job of…

— Jon Lovett

“Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you’re (linguistically) dead.”

— David Crystal

“our fatal troika dashes on in her headlong flight perhaps to destruction and in all Russia for long past men have stretched out imploring…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.

— Anonymous

We laugh & it pits the world against us.

— Richard Siken

“- How dare you, I repeat, In disregard of all decency, call me a goose? - I spit on your head, Ivan Ivanovich! What…

— Nikolai Gogol