A Quote by Mark Twain

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

Mark Twain

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Mark Twain
American - Writer
November 30, 1835 - April 21, 1910

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

E. B. White

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

Mark Twain

Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.

Arthur Quinn

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

E. B. White

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

Barry Cryer

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 can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

E. B. White

Frog has no nerves. Frog is as old as a cockroach. Frog is my father's genitals. Frog is a malformed doorknob. Frog is a soft bag of green.

Anne Sexton

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

E. B. White

In restaurants where they serve frog's legs, what do they do with the rest of the frog? Do they just throw it away? You never see "frog torsos" on the menu. Is there actually a garbage can full of frog bodies in the alley? I wouldn't want to be a homeless guy looking for an unfinished cheeseburger and open the lid on that

George Carlin

I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.

S. E. Hinton

'Targeting' is polite ads-speak for the data levers that Facebook exposes to advertisers, allowing that predatory lot to dissect the user base - that would be you - like a biology lab frog, drawing and quartering it into various components, and seeing which clicked most on its ads.

Antonio Garcia Martinez

If you throw a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will hop right out. But if you put that frog in a pot of tepid water and slowly warm it, the frog doesn't figure out what going on until it's too late. Boiled frog. It's just a metter of working by slow degrees.