Discouraging Quote by E. B. White

“Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process”

— Peter McGraw

Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.

— E. B. White

Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

— Mark Twain

You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.

— E. B. White

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

— Mark Twain

Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead.

— E. B. White

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

— E. B. White

Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog few people are interested, and the frog dies.

— Alan Ford

Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

— Mark Twain

Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.

— Barry Cryer

“Analyzing humor is like disecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.”

— E.B. White

I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its…

— Mark Twain